New user registration disabled

[cowfodder]

I've had to temporarily disable new user registration due to a large influx of spam accounts. I also had to prune almost 300 new accounts made in the last 3 days. I apologize to any legitimate new users that signed up in that time frame. We will be updating anti-spam countermeasures and registration will be re-opened after. I will keep you all posted.

-cowfodder

[unsigned_char72]

I've seen from the logs your hard pruning work f****d spammers!

To fix the problem, I've enabled the "Q&A" antispam plugin (see my PM) and reopened the registrations to see if any spam pass the new counter measure.

Please report if that works.

[jbmac]

The internet is going down the tubes, 99% of the emails I get are spams, pop-up blockers no longer work, almost every site brings pop-up windows and search results only show ads now, oh well.

[minderbinder]

maybe not even a bad thing when it's gone after all - besides a very few sites ...

[jbmac]

thanks, 99% of my emails are spams, thanks for the hard work

[Neverwalk]

I think this forum is useful. And there's information for me.

[Kajiwfacerock]

I agree with this opinion.

[henan-yinfeng]

I have joined this forum, hope can help me about planting mushrooms