"Are you a filthy spammer?"
Yes, OK come on in!
you had it backwards in your review
On the irshell.org (home brew sony psp OS like program) site I setup and occasionally admin we very rarley get any spammers, and barley have any methods of prevention with (last I looked) 1.9 million hits (per year) and ~ 22k registered users
what that site does is wraps around different modules (its a joomla system) which has the nice effect of not leaving a footer on every single page that says "hi were running joomla 1.5 please come spam us",its still there, just not in the footer... where I am going with this at the bottom of this page it has
"Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group" in plain easily script phrasable text, that bots look for when they are designed to target a system
taking that text and putting the exact same information (becuase its part of the licence you agreed to) in a image, and removing the link to phpbb to a different local page, like a listing of credits, is pretty darn effective
during a barrage on a buddies VB forum (vb sucks) where bots were posting at a rate of ~10 messages a min, doing the above almost instantly stopped new bots from wandering in, and a similar blacklist mod using 'stop forum spam now' auto banned all the bots already registered and rejected new ones
a year later and I think he has only had a couple sneak in, that when the blacklist was updated got autobaned before we even noticed
Yes, OK come on in!
you had it backwards in your review
On the irshell.org (home brew sony psp OS like program) site I setup and occasionally admin we very rarley get any spammers, and barley have any methods of prevention with (last I looked) 1.9 million hits (per year) and ~ 22k registered users
what that site does is wraps around different modules (its a joomla system) which has the nice effect of not leaving a footer on every single page that says "hi were running joomla 1.5 please come spam us",its still there, just not in the footer... where I am going with this at the bottom of this page it has
"Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group" in plain easily script phrasable text, that bots look for when they are designed to target a system
taking that text and putting the exact same information (becuase its part of the licence you agreed to) in a image, and removing the link to phpbb to a different local page, like a listing of credits, is pretty darn effective
during a barrage on a buddies VB forum (vb sucks) where bots were posting at a rate of ~10 messages a min, doing the above almost instantly stopped new bots from wandering in, and a similar blacklist mod using 'stop forum spam now' auto banned all the bots already registered and rejected new ones
a year later and I think he has only had a couple sneak in, that when the blacklist was updated got autobaned before we even noticed