On Saturday 29 July 2006 13:21, Mark wrote: > Hi all, > OK, I have set up the email verification on the forum - tested and it > works. I noticed there is already a numerical "captcha" there - but that > doesn't seem to prevent the spammers, so I doubt email verification will - > some use real addresses from throwaway accounts anyway. But if it helps > reduce the spam issue - it will be worth it. > I will keep an eye on things over the next few days - see how many spams > are posted. > > Mark
Well, as you know, I set up the email verification on the forum and it is actually proving quite useful. In the last 5 days or so, only a couple of spams have actually appeared on the forum. From an admin point of view, this verification is actually quite useful - I can see people who have signed up to the forum and are "awaiting verification" - and most are simply spammers using forged addresses, so they don't get the email asking them to click the link :) A quick general overview - 16 people listed as attempting to register ( I have removed a few more - so probably around 20). Of those, 1 genuine member only. 12 listed as Validating ( spammers) and a couple of spammers who managed to validate their throwaway email addresses. One advantage of this system is that I can check IPs - and help build up a list of obvious spammer IPs (and add to my collection of dodgy proxy addresses for blocking too!). The number of attempted registrations is artificially reduced by other techniques I employ to remove attempts to register by known spammers long before they register. So overall, it is working fairly well. Not perfect - but I don't think it is possible to block every single idiot. Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list [email protected] https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
