Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-20 Thread Curtis Olson
I added another captcha to the registration page ... maybe this will help slow down some of the less sophisticated bots. On 1/20/07, Stefan Seifert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Warne wrote: > I have seen ideas around where an image of a 'thing' is shown, and the u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Warne wrote: > I have seen ideas around where an image of a 'thing' is shown, and the user > has to type in it's name; thus a picture of a cat, dog, car, house etc. The > algorithm for a computer to do that is nigh on impossible, but a human c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-20 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:50, Stefan Seifert wrote: > Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > 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. > > And this particu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > 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. And this particular captcha is really u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-19 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
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 t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-19 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. Perhaps using phpBB wasn't th

[Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Our shiny new forum has become #1 target for pr0n and other spammers. If this can't be stopped, the forum will quickly die, as nobody is willing to wade through spams to find some valid posting. Today I found a whole screen full of new postings -- all of them spam. No valid posting. I don't know p