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Originally Posted by Macsee

Ah, but if the bot is following the link on your homepage, then changing all instances of register.php in all files, templates and phrases will point all new users to the new location of the registration page rather than sending them to the fake page which has instructions to the humans telling them where to proceed to complete their registration.

Oh, I see, yeah. I was thinking that bots just assume it's called register.php. You could tell by looking at the web server logs, but I never have. Anyway, then you're probably right, if you just change any reference to register.php in the file you'll probably be OK.

What lines would you disable in the page to prevent actual creation of the user?

You could take out everything having to do with the user datamanager. But now that I think about it more, if you're just talking about bots I'm not sure there's any point, because it would probably just give up if register.php isn't there, and you'd get the same result.