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gopherhockey · #**518** 06-01-2007, 11:40 AM

I apologize as I am sure this has already been asked and answered, but I couldn't find it...

Does this hack remove the emails that we would get as a spammer is attempting to register?

We get the new user emails regardless of whether the new user has completed the email verification. This means the spammers aren't getting in, but we do get spammed by their registrations.

We have a few custom fields that we have people fill out - they seem to be filled out in the same pattern by these spammers, so I can only assume this is a bot. (like the question Biography: always has the answer "Man")

I want to have something that will stop even the emails from attempted registrations.

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