Two Men..

[Chris.Day]

There's a few things that I've found can help cut down on this junk:
1) Use the image verification in member registration
2) Ban certain domain names for e-mail addresses
3) Use the e-mail verification link in member registration (needed because otherwise they can just enter any random e-mail address)
4) Use aggressive e-mail banning, so that you can ban addresses with names like "viagra" "plasma" etc in them

[elite]

Mhm, i think sub has to rework his registration form for this forum. Far too much Spambots in the last time, i think.

I believe this has been attempted, but was unsuccessful due to some of the mods running on the forums and lack of support from the vendors (presumably because it is not a vanilla install)

[capone]

Since it isn't flooded w/ it here, my guess is these accounts are being generated manually--either by one of the more industrious scumbags of the spamming community, or by some kid in Vietnam or India doing these for $0.02 per account as an alternative to sewing Nikes or answering questions about why the HD just died in someone's Dell.

[reboot]

Why was the blonde so frustrated?
Whenever she asked someone, "What time is it"?, she got a different answer.

[sub]

There's a few things that I've found can help cut down on this junk:
1) Use the image verification in member registration
2) Ban certain domain names for e-mail addresses
3) Use the e-mail verification link in member registration (needed because otherwise they can just enter any random e-mail address)
4) Use aggressive e-mail banning, so that you can ban addresses with names like "viagra" "plasma" etc in them

I'm currently doing 1 and 3, but I'm also starting to think I'll need to look at the specific domains and address. Arrg! painful...