[Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

[Melchior F. <mf...@ao...>]

Our shiny new forum has become #1 target for pr0n and other spammers.
If this can't be stopped, the forum will quickly die, as nobody is
willing to wade through spams to find some valid posting. Today
I found a whole screen full of new postings -- all of them spam.
No valid posting.

I don't know phpBB, but I suppose the miserable situation can be
fixed by upgrading and/or installing addons (captcha or something).
At least I have yet to meet another forum that's as plagues.

I have also suggested to Curt that he installs an ATOM/RSS feed
mechanism. There are ready packages for that (install time reportedly
only 5 minutes). This would make monitoring the forums and
responding much easier and thus enable more people to do support
(me, for example :-)

  http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=373726

Five minutes.

m.