Ha, don't you wish you were still enjoying those days like me. But you're Mrs. Big-time now.

Yeah, I do get stoked about those first few members!

This is a good idea, however, the owner of the forum simply doesn't want to take the time to do that. We were looking for more of an automated method at blocking fake users.

Yeah, we just installed a mod to log the ip's, and we have blocked one or two. I think that's about as good as it's going to get as far as automated blocking.

Yeah, good point. And now that I think about it, I think you're right in your first post about it not being bots. Because we did have the image verification turned on, it really couldn't have been...

Good stuff. Guess that's all we can really do. We've implemented email verification, and I guess I'll just tell the owner of the site to do some housekeeping every now and then. Thanks again for...

Hey, I built a phpBB forum for a friend of mine, and it's actually prospering quite well! But a couple weeks ago, he started getting messages in the admin email box basically that were forwarded to...