PhpBB: Stopping Spam Registration

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited May 2007 in Internet & Media
I'm just trying to help some friends out with their forum... it's a fairly private forum but they welcome new users. They've built in some spam filtering things like image verification, and when you register an email verification gets sent to the site admin. Despite efforts, spammers still sign up but there is some kind of flaw apparently that allows them to manually register without admin verification. Although they cannot post they're having to purge a dozen accounts per day becuase of the spammers. They do have the latest version of PhpBB btw. I've sent them my own ideas for mods they can make:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=430710
http://eclecticdjs.com/forum/stop_forum_spammers.php
http://www.cyprich.com/2007/03/10/stopping-spam-on-phpbb/

I am just curious if anyone knows of this problem and has a good way of killing these registered spammers for good, WITHOUT changing to a different forum? Unless posts and all that can be kept.

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