On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:29 PM, jingo811 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think it might be robots judging by the frequency WineHQ is being hit by spammers. phpBB is the number 1 target of all forum motors. > I don't remember when registering but did you implement some sort of > CAPTCHA? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA > > This kind of things are new to me but I think this is the first measure you take against all the circulating robots on the net. > phpBB.com should have some CAPTCHA plugin for these occasions. > > > > > > Captchas do not work in phpbb, every one of them has been broken. What _does_ work (from personal experience) is requiring user registration to post, and during registration requiring the answer to a simple question. There is a mod called "Textual Confirmation" which does this perfectly. Something like What color does mixing red and blue make? (purple) or something silly like that. Stopped all spam 100% on my phpBB forum. http://bbantispam.com/tc/ -- Zachary Goldberg Computer Science & Engineering Electrical Captain of Penn Electric Race Team School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
