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eboggs_jkvl
November 17th, 2007, 03:41 AM
I see you guys are being inundated with spam. We have put a "control" on the registration process on the LS2 site where we present a "picture" (JPG) of a mathematical problem ( What is ten - seven?) and ask for a numeric answer ( 3). All of the ru and de and whatever e-mail addresses came to a screaming halt. The bots can't figure out what to do during regiatration. We toss up random math problems that do not require an MBA to figure out and as of the date we installed the program, we have had 0, NONE, Nil, Zilch, NADA spammers complete a registration on our site. We had them trapped to automatically be banned but they were still making the IDs. This time, we've given Boris, the Russian, the snub and the poor guy can't even MAKE the ID.

Just a suggestion to you if you have someone that can hack the VB software.

Elmer

Tordne
November 17th, 2007, 08:10 AM
We get lots of bogus user registrations, but user account moderation was enabled ages ago so we don't get SPAM posts (not that I've seen anyhow).