On Thursday 31 December 2009 21:10:50 Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 06:00:42 Kevin Utter wrote: > > Hi all. I haven't been able to Create a login on the BBS, so I hope I > > can ask these questions here. If this is a problem, please advise, and > > I'll mend my ways! :-) Also, my questions require a bit more > > explanation than normal, so I opologize in advance for the wordyness. > > Sorry about that, we know that the registration on our BBS is problematic > for visually impaired users. To prevent spam we need to avoid bots being > able to register to the BBS. The standard builtin technique in the forum > is to use a captcha image and the user has to enter the code from the > image. But that wasn't actually enough to kill the spam bots (IIRC we had > about 10 successful bot registrations per day), so we added a project > specific question to the registration process as well which really killed > them finally. Maybe our project specific question is enough... I will try > to deactivate the captcha mechanism and then we'll see.
Ok, I disabled the CAPTCHA image for the registration process on the forum. I hope spam bots stay away. We will see ... Anders, if you have an eye on it as well, I would appreciate it! CU Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Linuxsampler-devel mailing list Linuxsampler-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxsampler-devel
