Topic: Protecting the forum from auto signups
I have experienced this first hand. Are there provisions in 1.2 for this? One way I know of is to use some sort of optical character recognition in the sign up form that asked the user to enter in the characters that are dispayed in auto generated image. I am sure most people have come across this before. I have done one before in a testing enviorment, but never on a live site. I did it with classes. One for sessions, and one for randomizing the image text.
Has this ever been thought of for punBB? I am not sure what kind of load that it would put on a server, but its definately a safegaurd from "bots".
Even if a system requires email confirmation of an account, the confirmation process can also be part of a "bot" provided that the bot has access to the account that the email confirmation was sent.