[support] Spammers

[Linda Romey]

I did some googling and found out how to block spambots in my htaccess
file. Even found a list of known bots and it worked.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have several drupal sites and I constantly get barraged with requests
> for accounts.  I have Image CAPTCHA setup on all these sites and still I'm
> still getting 20 requests a day, mostly from China.  Anyone able to share
> what these people/automatons are trying to do?  How are they getting
> through CAPTCHA?  How can I stop them?  I am running a pretty old version
> of Drupal on a couple of sites, but even with almost current versions they
> flood in.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
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