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In our SMF forum
- Finally i found this through googleRegardsDonald
They published a workaround to violate the SMF captcha barrier so they are useless now.In our SMF forum there are 3 or 4 spammers registering per day. They can't activate their accounts because they use fake emails and they don'r receive the activation links. They don't cause any harm for now and from time to time I ban them to avoid further damages. I'd recommend to send an activation email so that only real people can register. Normally, spammers are bots. And it's a good idea to install some antispam add-ons.
I already have email activiation, an image captca, and an anti-spam human question, yet they still get through!Dave.
How about modify the policy so that the email and IP addresses of spammers get published when caught? Let the spammers spam each other.
It already exists:http://www.stopforumspam.com/Whenever I find somebody who smells like spam... I verify his IP address on that list and if he is guilty, I ban him.
There must be some SMF add-on which consults that spam list every once in a while. When you ban somebody, his IP gets automatically inserted to the black list.