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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:46 am    Post subject: Mod not stopping spambots  

Hi there...

I just installed this mod on my forum this afternoon in hopes of stopping the ton of fake registrations I get every day. It appears everything is correct but its not stopping the spambots at all. After the first dozen came in I went in and tried to register a new account and not enter anything in the textual confirmation... it let the registration go through. I've looked through some of the other threads to see if I could find the problem based on what other people have posted, but I can't seem to find anything.

Any ideas what could be going on?
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:22 am    Post subject:  

I think the following is an answer:
http://bbantispam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=428
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:34 pm    Post subject:  

I don't think it has anything to do with the answer... My question is what is the capital of Maine (since its a Maine forum). I just don't think its setup correctly and I can't figure out what I did wrong.
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:35 am    Post subject:  

Oh, I'm very sorry, I posted a wrong link. Here is the right one:
http://bbantispam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=181
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Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:56 am    Post subject:  

I had already found that thread and double checked. This isn't the problem unfortunately.
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:39 am    Post subject:  

Then hard to say what could be wrong. Then I'd recommend to uninstall Textual Confirmation (restore the files from backup) and install Advanced TExtual Confirmation instead:
http://bbantispam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=284
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:27 pm    Post subject:  

That did the trick. Everything is working fine now.

Thanks for the help!!
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:18 am    Post subject:  

I'm glad to hear it. Best luck!
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Ok.