[pLog-svn] phpbb2 mod for spam?

[Reto Hugi]

I think these accounts where generated by robots before we activeted the
CAPTCHA.

btw: thank you very much for taking the time and looking into upgrading our
phpbb!

cheers,
reto

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:51:28 -0400 (EDT), Jon Daley
<plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>  	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).
>>>
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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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