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Topic: Are spambots a problem for PunBB?

I'm just putting up my first PunBB board - nice simple product!  Kudos to the developer!

Are the spambots finding PunBB boards, is this a problem for us?  I've been using another product that has sophisticated & effective protection, but can't use it for this current project--besides, PunBB is much easier.

Any thoughts or observations?  Thanks!

Tom

2 Reply by Smartys (edited by Smartys 2005-05-31 14:18)

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Re: Are spambots a problem for PunBB?

I've never seen a spambot on a PunBB forum smile
That being said, if guests can't post on your board and you're worried about spam bots registering, there's a mod to put visual confirmation on the registration page

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Re: Are spambots a problem for PunBB?

We run a phpBB forum for Nucleus CMS support.

The only forum open to guests is the General Questions section, not a week goes by that we don't have to get rid of some spam. We've debated requiring members to also post on General forum but it would not be fair to those people wanting to ask a pre-install type of question.

Spam is with us to stay, we just have to deal with it the best we can.

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4 Reply by tstockma (edited by tstockma 2005-05-31 15:19)

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Re: Are spambots a problem for PunBB?

Thank to both of you for the comments.  Yep, spam is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future.  The board I'm putting up is on a site that will shortly go live and be somewhat high profile, so I expect the bots to find it.

Smartys, yep, I don't allow guests to post--and that plugin for visual confirmation sounds like a wonderful way for me to limit spambot registration.  (Even that can be cracked.  Some bots will forward that graphic file to porn sites, which pretend to require the confirmation--so port site visitors become part of the graphic-cracking program.  Doh!)

Smartys, do you know what the plugin is?  If not, I'll start lookin'.  Hopefully it'll be easy to find--the open source blogging software I use doesn't have a central directory of plugins, so my experience says I might have my work cut out for me, to find this.

Thanks again, all!

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Re: Are spambots a problem for PunBB?

Here's the mod: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6785