Originally Posted by Maria Gracia
I'm getting at least 10-15 of these a day. This started about a week ago.

However, I'm wondering if this is happening to anyone else, and if there are other measures I can take to prevent this -- without, of course, keeping out the people I DO want registering (people interested in getting organized.) smile

I hear you. My email ban list now includes more bot addresses than actual people!

It's an epidemic happening on many forums (not just UBB).

Some past discussions here:

https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/169938/page/1#Post169938

https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/168332/page/1#Post168332

https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/165236/page/1#Post165236

https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/2204/page/6#Post2204

I'm running Classic still. For a while, I'd go through banning the email and IP from these bot registrations. I got sick of going through all of that. The IPs and email domains are just about endless.

I've taken to now manually approving every registration. It's a pain, but you can spot the bots right away with their funky email address. If you're not sure by looking at the email, search the IP and 99% of the time it will be from out of the country.

Hopefully this trend will die down eventually. I've got dozens of member numbers being retired due to all of these bogus registrations that I'm having to delete.

Last edited by Mitch P.; 12/30/2006 12:23 AM.