Re: Tasks for GNUstep going forward...

[Jens Ayton]

hns@computer.org wrote:

> > Just following on from the forum software, phpbb seems quite feature
> > rich. But what I wanted to talk about was their website. It's very
>
> I did have several phpBB2 fora in operation until I had to shut them
> down unfortunately. There are robots out there that automatically scan
> for phpBB2 systems and firstly spam user registration and then the
> boards with inappropriate messages. Unfortunately, I was not able to
> close the holes they came in.

I had the same problem with the phpBB 2 board I run, until I installed  
reCAPTCHA (http://recaptcha.net/). Since then, we get less than one  
functioning spambot account per month (as opposed to several, up to a  
dozen, a day). That said, phpBB 2 is an infamously badly-designed  
piece of software, so I can’t say I recommend it. I know nothing of  
phpBB 3.

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Jens Ayton

Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?