Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: first spam in (phpBB)-test forum?

On 13/12/11 02:46, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Alex, *,
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Christian Lohmaier
> <lohmaier+ooofuture@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Christian Lohmaier
> > <lohmaier+ooofuture@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Hard to tell whether it is spam or just a testpost.. If it is spam,
> > > then at least a "nice" variant.
> > > http://forum-test.libreoffice.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=20
> >
> > So phpBB forum now really did gather some spam.
> >
> > The (IMHO) hard-to-solve (from the view of  a human) doesn't really
> > work. Please change it to email-verification mode.
>
> Please - if it is already that bad in the test-installation, how bad
> will it be with the real one?
> The users are very likely automatically generated, since they all seem
> to have their birthday on the registration date.
>
> The captcha is worthless. Whether it is bypassed by human spammers or
> solved/bypassed by software or by a bug in phpBB doesn't matter -
> spammers come through already.
>
> ciao
> Christian

Did you look into the alternatives for the default solution?

http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/modifications/anti-spam-9/

Something like http://www.peoplesign.com/main/officialDemo.html is
interesting, but not quite the solution if users have certain disabilities.
http://mollom.com/ on the other hand offers a completely automated service
keeping the spammers
out. Unfortunately there's no obvious plugin for phpBB, but there' several
developer libraries available at http://mollom.com/download. As an example
this WordPress driven site http://educoo.no/?page_id=10 (previously also
did Joomla and Drupal for other projects) use it. As you can see there's no
CAPTCHA when you're commenting, but there's no spam either. We currently
have a serious spam problem in the Norwegian support forum for
OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice running Simple Machines Forum, so anyone
interested in plugging these holes are most welcome.

– Olav

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