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Originally Posted by KidCharlemane

I disabled my Q&A response system for registration after installing this mod and have been overun with spammers since. Is there any way I can check and make sure this mod is actually working?

Please keep your normal protection in place. This system does not replace, but add the protection which is missing.

From 18 November to now, we have had about 54.000 service calls from a grand total of about 120 service users (50 of which make regular use), and 50.000 requests were rejected. Although the service call count was introduced late, it gives already an idea how many registration attempts are legimit: a few.

When you go to the Worst IP List you'll see the numbers of the currently top 20 worst spammer sites.

Since two months, three of our sites which were previously overrun by spammers (1000's of posts), only 4 spammers made their way through, and only 2 were able to actually send a post.

So I can say it works better than anything else we had before. But obviously together with standard Captcha, or better, the Q&A system. We use only Captcha in addition to some simple and experimental aftermatch spam traps, which sooner or later will make part of this package