The thing is, I don't want to modify the forum code more than necessary, since I'll have to re-make those changes when the next version of the software is released.
here's what I did:
1. changed the "sign up" link at the top of the main forum page to authcheck.php.
2. authcheck.php asks "what's the name of the people that run SL?"
3. user enters the magic word and clicks "submit"
4. authcheck.php says "good job. here's the link to sign in..." OR "you didn't get it, you dirty spammer. Go sell your Viagara to some other bunch of losers". (well, not really. It just says "go back and try again")
This isn't perfect, and it's not my final plan. My plan is to more heavily modify the actual signup process. Specifically, I want to modify the registration page (the same place that asks for all your other personal details). But PHPBB is pretty convoluted, with everything in include files, so I decided to do it the easy way for now and see what happens. If it doesn't stem the tide, I'm going to go on to the next step and integrate the changes directly in to the PHPBB code.
I'm already using the visual authentication process and e-mail verification, which blocks most of the actual spam, but I still get several e-mails a day from sendmail telling me that it couldn't validate someone's e-mail address.
Cookies are really irrelevant in this instance, since a user still has to manually sign up to get through the visual verification thing (shows a bunch of letters and numbers in a .gif file). If someone manages to 'bot that through OCR, then I suppose I'll have to customize the page a little more.
On 10/12/06, Jesse Nesbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does the page set a cookie or something, because it shouldn't just redirect...
On 10/12/06, Tom Wilson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that's the general idea, but not totally sure whether it'll make a
> difference. I'll watch it for a week or so. If it doesn't work, I'll modify
> the signup .php so that it's a non-standard URL
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> On 10/12/06, Hugh Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Oh, I misunderstood I think. Your own question was added and therefore
> non-standard, and therefore avoids bots?
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