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    Anti-spam: that's why current high level

    http://www.allspammedup.com/2010/01/...ptcha-cracked/

    Google reCAPTCHA system (used here for user registration verification) seems cracked

    I will add some more countermeasures like Question and Answer
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    I've added 2 mandatory fields to be filled for new users asking to be registered to thinBasic programming language community:

    "Your real name"
    the request asks to please enter real user name. Of course I do not expect all user will fill with real data but it is a mandatory question that bots (automatic applications) will not expect to be mandatory so maybe some of them will desist from trying to register.

    This requests will be asked during new registration process but also to every user (even those already here with us, me included) when they will try to change their user profile
    "Can you spell it?"
    the request asks to read a single word and return one of the letter of that word in a certain position. This is very simple for human trying to register but will create a little complication to bots.
    This question will be asked only during first reguistration process.
    Hope this will niot create any problem to all of you already registered.
    For any problem, do not hesitate to contat me at: support at thinbasic dot com

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    Just to let you know.

    From 2011.01.04 to 2011.02.21 there were 10076 blocked tentatives to register to this forum blocked by the Anti-Spam system I installed.
    More than 200 try per day!
    Last edited by ErosOlmi; 21-02-2011 at 13:12.
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    Do you think Eros thinks that we are the spammers ?!?!!

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    Last edited by danbaron; 22-02-2011 at 07:51.
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