[pLog-svn] phpbb2 mod for spam?

Jon Daley plogworld at jon.limedaley.com
Thu Mar 13 11:51:28 EDT 2008


 	Hrm.  Looks like an upgrade to phpbb3 is the way to go.  phpbb3 
shows that there are 6400 users that have signed up for accounts but never 
logged in - I wonder if people sign up for the accounts, and then sell 
the logins to spammers...

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Jon Daley wrote:

> 	Upgraded to latest release: 2.0.23, probably doesn't make much
> difference.  I am looking into which is better, to upgrade to phpbb3, or
> to figure out this ACP mod.
>
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Jon Daley wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any opinions on this?
>>
>> http://forum.truden.com/viewtopic.php?p=163#163
>>
>> We are now getting probably a couple spams a day (all from gmail).
>>
>> --
>> Jon Daley
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>>
>> This problem will take an infinite amount of time.  This doesn't
>> seem very feasible, since we don't have an infinite amount of time.
>> In fact, we have less than a month.
>> -- Professor Tygar
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