[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by kh99

Yeah, can see where it's a problem if the bot time is approaching human time. The idea of delaying human registration would work, if I can figure out a way to do that. Or maybe one of the ideas that Lionel suggested would work to differentiate the bots from the humans.

Still monitoring via emails from the 4 forums with now well over 1000 registrations blocked since yesterday morning (I won't be continuing to look at all thse emails for very much longer). I've seen times as long as 27 or 28 seconds since I bumped the setting to 30 seconds and it's obvious from the structure of the usernames and email addresses that they're bots (you can spot most of them after a while - the bots aren't very good at constructing fake names and one even had an "@bypass-captcha.com" email address!). None of the blocked registrations have been actual humans.