Jeremy Newman wrote: > Tom Wickline wrote: >> http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=52 >> >> I sincerely wish you guys the best fighting off the spam assault :D > > Yeah, it has been difficult. Since I've never run a PHPbb board before, > I never know how well these bots had the registration system down. It > has really raised my blood pressure a bit this weekend. > > I think I've come up with a solution that will work for everybody. > First, I updated the "captcha" image validation to be more random and > harder to screen scrape. > > Second, I added a text validation field that asks you: "Who is the > current maintainer of the Wine project?" > > This should stop both bots and human spammers that don't know about our > forum. > > To be nice, I at least added a hint link, that takes you to the "About > Wine" page on WineHQ, so new users will at least have to read a little > bit of our history if they don't know. > > > I just tried to register and locked myself out. I don't know if it was the capcha or what I was putting in for Wine's maintainer (Alexandre Julliard) but one of them was wrong every time. I am pretty sure I got the name of Wine's maintainer right so I think it has to be the capcha but I have never had problems with them before.
Just so's you know... -- Tony Lambregts