+1 to that! Also, they can't reuse the email. Make it harder on them, not easier.
Dealing with spam is always a pain. You need to balance out trying to prevent spam accounts with not complicating your user experience. Simple rule: the more hoops a user has to jump through to register, the less likely they are to register.
The big problem today is that there are people actually being paid to register spam accounts. One of the big culprits are these fly by night companies offering SEO help. They pay some foreign company to register accounts and spam sites, then they contact the site saying "HEY! We can help get your SEO ranking up". Of course that's after it was after their actions caused it to go down. It's a dirty practice, but one that does exist today and is continuing to grow.
Basically you aren't going to stop it. If you do, then sell your plan and watch Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others pay you big bucks for it, especially when you consider the emails they are using are usually from one of those providers. Just keep on it, blocking the accounts as they pop up and eventually it will die off. Vigilance is the best tool to combat spam.
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On 6/12/2013 9:55 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Kamal Palei wrote:
Tracey Thanks a lot. Probably spambot will guard against spam users registration to some extent.
If somehow, some spam users register in site (we can determine manually or automated way), I would like to re-use the UID allocated for spam users should be re-used for future valid users. In that case, do we have any modules or any existing mechanism to achieve re-using the UIDs allocated to spam users previously.
You want to block and not delete those SPAM users so they cannot use the same user name for the SPAM. At least that is my take on life on the internet.