Spammer Countermeasure

[steveroe]

Yay - our first spam! We've hit the big time guys

[irrelevant]

Hehe. Took me ages to find the "report" button earlier, on this new version of phpBB (it's the triangle top right of the post).

[healeydave]

Ok, I did finally remove the spammers post at the beginning of this thread when I deleted the account and chose to delete all posts.

I have just installed a nifty new capatcha on the board that requires the assembly of a simple picture puzzle to complete registrations.
Hopefully, that should suffice

[irrelevant]

Good luck

I gave up on my forum, set registrations to moderator-approval, and manually verify them against stopforumspam.com. I'm up to twelve live members from nearly 80 registrations...

[Ant]

Good luck

I gave up on my forum, set registrations to moderator-approval, and manually verify them against stopforumspam.com. I'm up to twelve live members from nearly 80 registrations...

On that note, maybe those two worlds can collide - given that TiVo S1 has the hardware to do it, (and it's already used to output a service full of entirely blank pages) wouldn't it be interesting to introduce a TiVo hack to output a full, live, (perhaps automatically genererated) teletext service...

[irrelevant]

or even:


(And yes, that IS live.. really ought to sort out the time zone for the server)

PS: hi Ant - didn't realise it was the same You...

Edit: time now shows correctly!

[healeydave]

Hehe, nice!

[worm]

ahh, takes me back

our school used to run its own teletext service on the computer network. Great fun to hack around with