Captcha stops the most of the bots, but we have found that in a lot of 3rd world countries, they pay real people to sit and register on sites and the Captcha isn't sufficient. I won't name the place, but one of the SA Banks where I was contracting ran into this problem...
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Michael Bendorf <bendo...@a-ccentral.us> wrote: > Do you need to have new people sign themselves up? > I have disabled new account registration from the front end. Everyone that > needs access to the registered user content has an account and if someone > new/else does need it then I manually create their account in the back-end. > I left the front-end signup open long enough for everyone to create their > account requests, but then flipped the option in the Joomla configuration > that disables account creation requests from the public side. > The login box is still there, but the signup links are gone... > > > --Michael T. Bendorf-- > Technology Administrator > A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 > 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 > DID #: 217.476.6019 > Cellular: 217.306.6824 > > "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during > your lectures so that I do not need you any more." > > A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for > others. > > "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous > flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using > poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." > > - Alan Kay > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Joel A. Brondos <jbron...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I set up a registration process for our school's Joomla website so that >> private school information is kept private, adding one minor level of >> internet security. >> >> But every day I get dozens of attempts to register from weird-sounding >> names with address extensions from Russia and who knows where else. >> >> Is there any way to block them? More of a nuisance, I think, than a >> serious problem. >> >> Joel Brondos >> Brookfield, IL >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > -- "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Dr. Howard Thurman ****************************** Aaron Keith Hackney aa...@aaronkeithstudios.com Cell 210.325.2196 ****************************** | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
