Spambots!

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Vadi
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Spambots!

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We've been getting occasional visits from spambots - I've asked demonnic to try adding reCaptcha or some other measure, since the current ones aren't working :|

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We aready are on reCaptcha. Pah.

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Should be fairly obvious, but I wouldn't recommend clicking any of the links they post.

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Demonnic upgraded forums, yet they're still coming. Perhaps we have to add a question - though those are annoying...

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A standard question/answer for registration I feel would be fine.

'What's 2 + 2?'

'The first letter of this sentence is what?'

etc, not that hard for people to type in one extra Key, I don't think.

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Looking at phpbb forums, it seems indeed that reCaptcha has been cracked. While it's nice to direct all that CPU power to OCR'ing the worlds paper-based literature, I don't fancy spambots getting by.

So, now we're using a simple Q&A one.

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Went through the member list and cleaned it of the most obvious bots.

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