[pedigree]

alfa ill do something like AE detector where the registration process sets a non-vb cookie. all cookie tracking can be extremely easily bypassed by a bot with little coding on the part of the scum writer. With more and more people using spambot posters and more and more boards being spidered/discovered and added to the lists, its bound to happen

what I might do is test a mod addition to rename register.php with another named file with hitting register.php resulting in a temp ban from that ip perhaps.

Ive got some code kind of working, on the list of things to do, where the register form has encoded javascript, where is adds random fields to the input form. If they arent there with the post back, it knows its a spammer (as you cant submit the form without javascript enabled) - i know, i know, forcing javascript is a royal facist thing to do but its another way to hinder spambots.