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On 13/12/2011 03:26, Olav Dahlum wrote:
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.
Olav

In regards to wordpress captchas there are plugins im using one myself actually on my site but that is off topic here. Another thing we have to ensure with the CAPTCHA's is that they are set to the highest level of complexity possible. this adds another layer of difficulty for those trying to sign up to spam the forums.

Also we coudl make CAPTCHA's required to post to the forums each new thread.


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