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post Oct 2 2008, 12:53 PM
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Currently we, along with many other Invision boards, are getting dozens and dozens of spam registrations per day.

To protect the server and the forum, registration now includes a custom field to filter out automated spammers, as a very simple question.

If you have registered in the past week, but are still waiting for an approval email - please re-register, as your details were almost certainly lost in clearing out the vast number of spam registrations.

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djellison
post Oct 3 2008, 07:12 PM
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All we really needed was a subtle tweak to sort out this current torrent - not a single spam registration so far, whereas we would have had 40 in a similar period a day ago. All registrations go thru a manual approval process anyway.
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- djellison   Registration information   Oct 2 2008, 12:53 PM
- - Ant103   I'm wondering if it's not possible to put ...   Oct 2 2008, 04:51 PM
- - djellison   It's called CAPTCHA, and we already have it in...   Oct 2 2008, 04:55 PM
- - Stu   The price we're paying for the hi-profile plug...   Oct 2 2008, 05:07 PM
- - djellison   Nope - loads of Invision boards have all had the s...   Oct 2 2008, 05:57 PM
- - tty   Apparently spammers are now using "CAPTCHA sl...   Oct 2 2008, 06:51 PM
- - Greg Hullender   Grin. We need a UMSF-specific CAPTCHA that won...   Oct 3 2008, 01:31 AM
- - djellison   A custom field for registration (something as simp...   Oct 3 2008, 07:21 AM
- - Ant103   What about a random raw picture of a spacecraft an...   Oct 3 2008, 09:21 AM
- - djellison   And when the person doesn't know? I've ad...   Oct 3 2008, 09:46 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (djellison @ Oct 3 2008, 01:46 AM) ...   Oct 3 2008, 04:41 PM
- - charborob   This may be a stupid question, but why would spamm...   Oct 3 2008, 12:58 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (charborob @ Oct 3 2008, 02:58 PM) ...   Oct 3 2008, 01:01 PM
- - djellison   To post links to porn, scams, and in this particul...   Oct 3 2008, 01:18 PM
- - stevesliva   Post a link to some porn, get it spidered by googl...   Oct 3 2008, 02:11 PM
- - djellison   All we really needed was a subtle tweak to sort ou...   Oct 3 2008, 07:12 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (djellison @ Oct 3 2008, 11:12 AM) ...   Oct 3 2008, 11:51 PM
- - elakdawalla   For a regular supply of easy-to-Google questions, ...   Oct 3 2008, 09:11 PM
- - imipak   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Oct 3 2008, 05:41...   Oct 4 2008, 01:39 PM
- - djellison   It doesn't even need to be random to avoid thi...   Oct 4 2008, 02:17 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   Just something to make them go back and look at th...   Oct 4 2008, 04:07 PM
- - dmuller   I just want to throw in a word of caution ... what...   Oct 4 2008, 05:26 PM
- - djellison   The new system is working beautifully. Normal reg...   Oct 7 2008, 07:39 AM
|- - Tom Tamlyn   Is there an admin address that will go to everyone...   Oct 9 2008, 01:15 AM
- - elakdawalla   Yep. At the lower left of each post is a button t...   Oct 9 2008, 01:52 AM
|- - Shaka   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 8 2008, 03:52 PM...   Oct 9 2008, 02:09 AM
- - stevesliva   Just assume that he's still reading.   Oct 9 2008, 05:04 AM


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