[TriLUG] forum spammers

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Magnus wrote:
> WA Brown wrote:
>> Ive never heard of "captchas"
> 
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=captcha&btnG=Google+Search

phpBB's captcha is useless and doesn't result in a significant reduction 
in spammer hits.  I did add a special field where you must enter the 
number 4.  This helped but once we got slashdotted spammers updated 
their scripts specifically for us.

-Andy

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