Okay folks...sorry to have to do this, but because of excessive amounts of spam, I have disabled guest posting...if you want to post, you'll need to register for a membership. If we continue to have problems like we have for the last few weeks, measures will get slightly more draconian. Let's see how this works for starters. From now on, new registrations will have a random password emailed to them to ensure that the account is attached to a valid email address, and only then will they be able to log in/post.

Also, a big thanks to the folks who've been letting me know when they see spam, it's a great help.

Three cheers for the Webmistress!  Hip, hip, huzzah!  Hip, hip, huzzah!  Hip, hip, huzzah!

does YaBB have visual confirmation like PhpBB?
that stops a lot of spambots too!

I was going to join in on the three cheers, but since this has been called off, I'll just have to "Tak' my wee bonnet aff fer the gude webmistress" instead

Cheers,
Henrik

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Not in this version, and I'm holding off on major upgrades or migrations until I finish up some other stuff. My experience with third-party visual confirmation providers has been moderately negative, so I'd as soon not go that route, either. We'll see how this does. I've already had several registrations with bogus email addresses attached, just since yesterday.

Yep, I can ban bogus users. I can (and sometimes do) ban IP's and emails and usernames all day long, but it won't do much good. I'm also banning some entire ranges of IP's, and as soon as I have enough of a list, I'll do reverse lookup and send emails to abuse addresses (not that it'll do any good, ISP's aren't as willing to yank accounts as they used to be). But dialup accounts change IP every time you dial in, so keeping up with that list can be exhausting after a while.

Grin and bear it, guys...it could be a lot worse.