That Web Man » Captcha http://www.thatwebman.com The Meanderings of a Web Designer Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:57:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 User Registration Spam http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/02/20/user-registration-spam/ http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/02/20/user-registration-spam/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:11:18 +0000 WebMan http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/02/20/user-registration-spam/ One of the main annoyances in the Internet age are spammers.

They’re still obviously hitting e-mail addresses aplenty and they moved on to spamming feedback forms from websites. As if anyone with even half a braincell would buy any shite that way!

The problem with blogs is with comment and trackback spam – usually dealt with by Akismet – and also with user registration spam. I’m not entirely sure what the point is with the latter unless it’s to get over comments requiring user registration first.

Anyway, I’ve just added two plugins to my main blogs:

  1. reCaptcha for comments; and
  2. Recapture for user registrations.

We’ll see how these fare.

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