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Betelgeuse
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I see some bots are coming and posting on the boards as guests. Is there any way to stop them?
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I don't know how this forum is set up, but I see it is a phpBB. There is probably a banning device in the user section of the admin panel that can block IPs and/or hostnames. Stinking robots!

EDIT - Don't anybody click on those links, that will just log this forum and make it worse, cause those people trade logs around.
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Betelgeuse
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wow even more of them :shock:
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I just spent some time on whois and I've got info about these websites: names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, etc.

One of them is a cable company in Seville, Spain. The other one is a networking company in Whitestone, NY.
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Betelgeuse
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we really need to do something about guest posting
isnt' there a way to have to have it verified before going up?
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i think so, but i think it's a global or at least sub forum wide thing...
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Use CAPTCHA, it should be more than enough for most bots.
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SparcMan
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Would it be at all possible to implement something where for guests to post, they have one of those "type in the number hidden in the image above" things? It would give legit guests a chance to post freely and would stop the spambots cold.
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