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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject: New anti-spambot mod installed

Hi folks. Due to the incessant hammering of this site by random spambots from various Russian porn sites, with dozens of randomly-generated usernames per day (all of which don't exist and so bounce back to my mail server) I've been forced to install an anti-spambot on the user registration process.

It's a simple script that supposedly requires a few seconds between registering and attempts to figure out if it's a script that's scraping the web page or a human accessing it normally over a web browser. If it thinks it's found a bot, it switches the "submit" form to a "preview" instead. A human would presumably know what to do, but a bot wouldn't. That's the theory anyway.

What I really wanted was one of those "type in the hard to read random key code images that a computer can't read" things, but I couldn't find one. Hopefully this works. Let me know if it makes anything else weird on your end.

Woman From Russia was funny, but dozens of attempted fake registrations per day is just annoying. Damn the Internets!
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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I was looking for a capcha mod for PHPBB but couldn't find one. Those things annoy me sometimes because it seems like they make it TOO hard to figure out what the character is. I suppose it's a never-ending battle against bots using OCR software. It just annoys me that this is a problem in the first place!!

I think a modest solution would be firebombing the homes of people sending out spam. Just think how quickly the spam would stop after the first few hundred fiery deaths! I think it's reasonable.
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"Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries."
-- Carl Sagan

"Its not a rule. Its just something I noticed. Several of us have more than one sig." - Mord

"No, you are a troll, and I should have never let you back to Ars in after the first 16,000 bannings." - Caesar, to He Who Shall Not Be Named

Thundar · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:31 am Post subject:

Ummm... phpBB from 2.0.11 on should have CAPTCHA verification.
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Dvixen · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:07 pm Post subject:

aponomarenko

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Pity you can't prevent the bots from coming and visiting. :/
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