For the past couple of months the forum's registration page was getting hammered by bots. We were getting around 5000 registrations attempts per week. And even though they didn't get past our super secret question, they did take up bandwidth and cause server load.

So to fight the spam some more I have changed the registration URL with a mod to the forum. New people signing up should be presented with the new URL if they click on the Register button. Bots linking directly to the old register.php page will get a 404 error.

People who have already installed this mod have reported that their bandwidth usage has dropped to 1/5th of what it was before. That makes those bots almost seem like a DDOS attack. Then again, more then half of the Internet traffic is just bots nowadays. Good bots, bad bots, some as bot as your bot...

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