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<br>Well, most modern forum software has captcha images during registration, which stops some of these bots somewhat. Other forums have custom questions like "If you are a human, please type how much 1+1 are" (to avoid captcha reading software).<br><br>I believe that the newer versions of phpBB do have captcha images during registration, so we should upgrade our forum version. I've dealt with phpBB and vBulletin in the past, so I could do this at some point, if noone else wants to undertake the task<br><br>Regards<br>Filippos<br><br>> From: max@quendi.de<br>> To: scummvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<br>> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:52:06 +0200<br>> Subject: [Scummvm-devel] "Intelligent" forum spam bots<br>> <br>> Hi folks,<br>> <br>> recently we got more and more successful spammers "coming thru". <br>> Worse, some seem to be semi-intelligent. To the degree that I start to <br>> be uncertain who is and who isn't a spammer. See e.g. this guy:<br>> <br>> <http://forums.scummvm.org/search.php?search_author=deanhanson><br>> <br>> What he says makes *some* sense and is connected to the thread it is <br>> posted in, although it is rather off-topic. Of course many humans act <br>> just like that, so....<br>> <br>> I wonder how we should deal with such people. PM them privately to <br>> test if they are bots? And of course we'd want all moderators to be <br>> aware of how to deal with this all...<br>> <br>> Also, I wonder if there are better forum protection measures we could <br>> implement. Of course, our forum is rather unmaintained as it is <br>> (running on a software, phpBB 2, that hasn't been further developed <br>> for quite some time now). Maybe we need to switch to yet another <br>> discussion board software (and find an admin for that) ?<br>> <br>> Bye,<br>> Max<br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA<br>> is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your<br>> developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay <br>> ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now!<br>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Scummvm-devel mailing list<br>> Scummvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<br>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scummvm-devel<br> <br /><hr />Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. <a href='http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_try bing_1x1' target='_new'>Try Bing™ now</a></body>
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