I wanted to apoligize for my absence the last couple weeks. I have been in the process of moving from the southwest to northeast US, and buying a new house in the process. Between the unpacking, closing on the house, getting some new furniture and also starting a new job my spare time has been pretty much non existant. I think things have settled down enough again that I can resume my work here and provide some support in the forums.

In regards to the forums I will be turning off guest posting access because of a few spammers that have decided they liked my website. I really don't like locking the site down like this but every minute I spend deleting spam off the server is time I'm not working on code or helping out users. Most likely I will be locking down the frontpage comment section as well, but am going to try and hold off and see if they just decide to go away.

Anyway it's good to be back!!

chris

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... : kenmcd Best to eliminate "guest" posting. Many of these posters are actually applications or bots - not likely to go away. Have downloaded and looked at apps which target unprotected SMF forums (among others). They come with starter lists of forums and sites to spam. Also include functions to find vulnerable sites. Best solution is require registration and use a CAPTCHA image verification for registration. Old OpenSEF SMF forum had 3-5 spam registrations per day (or more). BIG time waster every day deleting and banning. Even with extensive ban rules in SMF. New vB forum with CAPTCHA - have had 2 spammers register - total, ever. SMF now has a CAPTCHA option I think. Does JomComment also have CAPTCHA? Good luck, and thanks for Blogg-X. November 14, 2006

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