I have PPN's check user name upon registration hack (or whatever it's officially called) installed. That's where the other 2 came from. So the default 5 would probably be the best way to go then, right? What do you have yours set at?

I haven't installed hacks on WDF and won't until 2.3.0 final comes out. Even HelperBot isn't back yet because we got killed when I upgraded from 2.2.9 to 2.3.0 RC1 with the whole porn spammer incident.

I must have missed hearing about that. Sorry to hear it.

Ok, I'll leave it at 5 for now and see how that goes. Thanks for the hack. ;)

My board never got hit, but 2.2.9 had a hole which allowed the bot to operate so I preemptively upgraded.

You wouldn't have an idea of where the hole was or how to fix it, would you, by chance?

Somewhere in register.php where the e-mail address wasn't trimmed.

I think that was the one line fix that Logician came up with, IIRR. I did that one a while back. Thanks!

very awesome, should help me with fools who just flood the registrations process for nothing

Tnx installed.
I had a very simpatic banned member that registered 200 times nicks like 0903904 03940343 0394 4 ecc, now, with this hack, is quite ;)