Losing the battle with spammers

[MinUph]

I tried registering and couldn't get the captcha thing right. Might be my old eyes but I gave up.,

[Inger-in-Norway]

Thanks for your help. I will remove thr captcha and instead create a third scurity question, as I also had problems with the captcha myself.
'Denco'has been sent a mail to activate the account, so that we can see the whole process.

I don't know how Ken did it, but I have been sending out those activating mails ever since I took over. But that is apparently not enough. I just yesterday discovered the further protection bu adding the captcha and the security questions.
So far it seems to work well.

[sofadoc]

I clicked on the link to activate the "denco" account. I was able to login as denco, but when I tried to post a reply here, I got an error message saying that I was not allowed access.

[Inger123]

Testing with my "alter ego"...

Ok, I had done something wrong which I have now corrected.

[denco]

Ok, how about now?

[denco]

Now I can post as denco. I guess I just didn't wait long enough.

[Inger123]

Seems to work. I'll delete both your and my second profiles then...

[Inger-in-Norway]

Back home now. Since I made those security changes I have had just one person applying for membership. I've just replied with the usual activation mail. it remains to see whether that is a spammer or not.

The violent flood of spam started right after the forum had been upgraded. I wonder if some of the security settings were in place before that, but were overwritten somehow in the upgrade process.

[SteveA]

Great news - Many Thanks
SA

[kodydog]

I have noticed these last few days the spam activity has disappeared. Thanks Inger.

[kodydog]

Learn english?  Bwahahaha. Inger you have got to leave that one up so we can have a field day with it.

[Inger-in-Norway]

OK, you can keep it. ;) I have banned the poster, though, so he will have to go someplace else to learn English.

[65Buick]

bummer!!