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...
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Tony Lambregts