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#450805 27/09/11 11:40 AM
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Hi all,

As you may have noticed yesterday and today, we've been updating the forum to a newer version.

There was a security hole in the old version that needed immediate patching. Rest assured that none of your data was compromised. (Neither was ours.)

This new version of the forum also allows us to force new users to fill in a captcha, so hopefully that means the end for spammers. If it doesn't, we'll also have new users activate their account with a link sent to them via email.

If you see or notice anything weird because of the upgrade, let me know smile


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Hi,

great news!!

Hopefully those bastards of "spammers" are gone with the wind now ! :hihi:



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Still gotta get Class/Alignment fixed again though.


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The captcha looks easy for spam bots. If you can, you should use Recaptcha. Its works on my forum perfect.


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Easy? When testing it out, I could barely read the first three it threw at me wink

If lots of spam still comes through, I'll have a look at other solutions.


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Seems to have done the trick although I have seen one or two posts. Some might be real people and not spambots so these are almost impossible to stop. I used to get tons of spam on my forums and the only way I could stop it was to ban gmail. Google seemingly do nothing to stop spammers from abusing their systems despite hundereds of complaints from people all over the web. Very drastic measures but I don't get much traffic on my site so I'm bycotting google mail. Spammers are a pain; changing my email address to stop hundreds landing in my inbox every day is getting really annoying.



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