I have it set to moderator approved now. I am still spreading the word throughout the community in which I live so it is a new startup and haven't had any legit takers yet. I have just been getting tired of the 20 to 30 inactive user accts that do not activate due to bad email accts. I think the added questions on the registration page have resolved some of the issue so far.
Thanks for the input. Randy On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:04 AM, m0gely <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > I may not be asking this question on the list, but here goes. I am new to > > administrating a phpbb forum on my site. I have been getting tons of > > spammers and am trying to figure out how to possibly eliminate the > problem. > > I am running phpbb3 on Ubuntu 9.10 Server. I have read about the MODS for > > textual questions and answers but cannot figure out how to install them > on > > Ubuntu. > > > > Anyone have any ideas on how to help alleviate the spamming problem of a > > forum board? > > > > Any help or pointers is greatly appreciated, or you can tell me I am in > the > > wrong place for this question if that is the case > > How many legitimate sign-up's do you have each day? You could just > change it to moderator approved instead of the automated email process. > > -- > m0gely > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
