<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Hi DM.<br>
<br>
Yeah, there are a lot of account registrations. 99% of them do not
get activated and are removed manually all 3-5 days.<br>
If they use some API that would explain how they all register. I
thought the captcha is too week.<br>
<br>
I'll look into installing the new version.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Manfred<br>
<br>
<blockquote style="border: 0px none;"
cite="mid:4D48C4F6.7000305@crosswire.org" type="cite">
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<hr style="border-width: 1px 0pt 0pt; border-style: dotted none
none; border-color: rgb(181, 181, 181) -moz-use-text-color
-moz-use-text-color; height: 1px; margin: 0pt;"
class="__pbConvHr"><br>
</div>
<table style="padding-top: 5px;" class="__pbConvTable">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><img
src="cid:part1.04070804.04000208@me.com"
photoaddress="dmsmith@crosswire.org" photoname="DM
Smith" name="compose-unknown-contact.jpg" height="29px"
width="29px"></td>
<td style="padding-left: 5px;" valign="top"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dmsmith@crosswire.org" style="color: rgb(0,
136, 204) ! important; text-decoration: none !
important;">DM Smith</a><br>
<font color="#888888">2. Februar 2011 03:44</font></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin-left: 40px;"
__pbrmquotes="true" class="__pbConvBody"><br>
While I was working on Jira today, I noticed that there are a
lot of failed attempts to create forum accounts. Most of the
names look entirely bogus. They are repeated many times. Often
from the same ip.
<br>
<br>
Interestingly the registration page has captcha. This should
have prevented junk accounts. I'm guessing that there is an api
that can be directly called that doesn't require captcha.
<br>
<br>
I looked at the "who's online" page and its mostly search bots.
Again just guessing, these junk accounts are relying on bot
harvesting.
<br>
<br>
I'm wondering whether we can turn off robots?
<br>
<br>
Also noticed there's a newer version than we are running.
<br>
<br>
-- DM
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________
<br>
server-admins mailing list
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:server-admins@crosswire.org">server-admins@crosswire.org</a>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/server-admins">http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/server-admins</a>
<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>