Cheers
Kristina
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I've shut down the registration method they used, deleted their posts, and disabled forum emails until Monday. My apologies for the inconvenience.
Cheers,
Aaron
]]>This isn't the first time the Mahara forum has been spammed. Through the years of this project we've implemented three or four new waves of anti-spammer countermeasures. Each one works for a year or two, then the spammers find a way around it.
I think for the current spam problem, we probably need to add some combination of:
Unfortunately at the moment everyone here at Mahara HQ is tied up trying to get the Mahara 15.04 release candidate out the door. So for the time being, I've just disabled new user self-registration. Hopefully next week when we get 15.04 out, we can take a look at implementing some of those spam countermeasures.
Cheers,
Aaron
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