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taropatch
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Lots of posts recently about spammers hitting various forums' members. I searched and found many different mods to deal with it.
  1. Antispam Registration Add-On 1.0 vs. CAPTCHA - Anti spam Does one have an advantage over the other?
  2. MarcelG's MOD: anti-spam E-mail filter 1.1 vs. Sonic's spamserver lock (admin pannel) Do these perform a similar function?
  3. GateKeeper - Antispam Anyone using this? Do your forum members mind answering the question to send out email?
  4. Anyone willing to share which mod(s) you're using? Would be good to know what combinations you're liking and finding effective. You may prefer to email me rather than post what your doing publicly
Right now, I've got the Antispam Registration Add-On. I'm going to upgrade to 3.4.06 and want to step up my anti-spam efforts. Also considering Rui's Blocking forum email spam. Any others I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
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HuwR
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1) CAPTCHA's are not recomended by W3C because the go totally against all recomended usability standards
2) Works resonably well,but your list will get very very large
3) Not tried this

we are currently ttrialing a couple of ways of preventing automated bots from registerring/posting, but there is no substitute for human intervention<
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#3 ~ I believe it can be turned on and off for each section. I plan to use it just for registration (not posting and emailing) when the read me is updated.
I've been using Rui's mod for quite some time now and it's awesome.


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RArch
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I've come across CAPTCHA's that have an option to speak the characters too, would that meet WC3 approval? <
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HuwR
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Originally posted by RArch
I've come across CAPTCHA's that have an option to speak the characters too, would that meet WC3 approval?
not really no, have you ever tried listening to them ? smile the W3C recommendation is not to use captchas at all<
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RArch
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Originally posted by RArch
I've come across CAPTCHA's that have an option to speak the characters too, would that meet WC3 approval?
not really no, have you ever tried listening to them ? smile the W3C recommendation is not to use captchas at all

lol no, but I will the next time I see one bigsmile <
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HuwR
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most of them have noise in the background to make it difficult for them to be copied in the same way that captchas work with images, unfortunately that makes them very difficult for ordinary people to hear and decipher too smile<
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MarkJH
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I've had problems recently with members posting with something called Forum Poster. Apparently, it'll register and post at thousands of forums at the same time.
Is this the kind of thing your trialling against, HuwR? If so, are things advancing? I really don't want to add CAPTCHAs or unwieldy email filters if it can be helped.<
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HuwR
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yes, "forum Poster" is what prompted us, there is a simple way to fool it, just add yourself a hidden field in post.asp which you then check for in post_info.asp, that should stop them.<
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MarkJH
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Ooh, cool. I'll look into that. I'm 'lucky' enough to be one of the nine or so available Snitz forums in the unregistered version. dissapprove<
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Originally posted by HuwR
yes, "forum Poster" is what prompted us, there is a simple way to fool it, just add yourself a hidden field in post.asp which you then check for in post_info.asp, that should stop them.
We've just been hit by Forum Poster for the first time. Can you explain a little more exactly? <
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