Време: 09/15/2011 12:54 PM, Fabian Arrotin пише: > On 09/14/2011 05:44 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: >> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5105 > >> Proposed approach: >> >> 1. Implement some automated way of deleting accounts as described above. >> 2. Implement captcha or some other mechanism in the account creation >> process to foil the bots. >> > > I guess that someone with access to the machine and the corresponding > mysql db/tables can do that, assuming that such 'research' has to be > done to know what to delete from the xoops db ... > I don't know if captcha is available for that old xoops version. What i > did for the fr.centos.org forum (using captcha by default) was also to > moderate the first post of every new user : spammers not seeing their > posts appearing on the forum stop to post (i guess the bot does a check > and stop after several attempts). That means that the moderator (me) has > to check the first post of each new user, but that's safer and easier > than having to deal with millions of posts from autogenerated accounts > > Fabian +1 -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant