Ahh welcome to the world of phpBB :D I would recommend Anti Bot Question [1] (which forces them to answer a question on sign up) and Visual Confirmation (CAPTCHA) [2] (which is an improved more random CAPTCHA)
[1] http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=383305 [2] http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=495004 Good luck in defeating those spam bots :D On 12/31/07, Steven Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi people, > > I run a forum using phpBB and have it so new members must be approved by > the admin, so as to stop porn spammers. > > This was perfect for the first couple of months, but now I get up to 20 > membership applications a day that are just spam. I have to look through > them to make sure there are no legitimate entries and this is becoming a > major pain. > > Can anyone tell me how I could possibly stop the spam, I was even happy > to stop applications and just add people myself, but it doesn't seem to > be an option in the admin panel. I really don't know anything about > phpBB other than how to set it up. > > Thanks > > Tuxta > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Harrison -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
