On Friday 19 January 2007 12:25, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> I don't know phpBB, but I suppose the miserable situation can be
> fixed by upgrading and/or installing addons (captcha or something).
> At least I have yet to meet another forum that's as plagues.
If my memory isn't playing tricks on me, I think we do have captcha...

Ah yes, here it is:
http://www.flightgear.org/forums/profile.php?mode=register&agreed=true

The problem is, captcha could be get around very easily by professional 
spammers.  Here is a related wikipedia article regarding that very topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha#Circumvention

In my opinion, the captcha set should be changed weekly if we want to keep 
spam out.

Ampere

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