In an effort to combat the increasingly clever and bothersome spammers and spambots that have been attacking our members via the 'pm' feature of the board, we have implemented the following:
- Administrative approval of all new message board user registrations [This has been in effect for some time now but it's easy to approve the registration of a spammer when they are not obviously spammers. Luckily, the majority of spam registrations have not gotten through this process.]
- Visual confirmation. This requires that a new message board user type a special code (usually displayed as a crooked graphic containing both numbers and letters). This has also been in effect for quite awhile. To add to this we are now requiring that the code be typed as you see it BUT to SWAP the first two characters. For example if the confirmation code displayed is ABCDEF, then you will enter BACDEF. The code is case sensitive and zero has a diagonal line through it.
- Required information. We are now requiring that new message board users provide in the 'Boat' field of the user profile the name of your boat. If you don't own a boat, please type "no boat". Do not leave this field blank. In the 'Comments' field, please provide some information about why you wish to register with the CD message board. Each registration is manually approved, so if you do not provide us with any information, we will assume that you are a spammer. The information you provide will be publicly viewable, but you can come back and add or change the information at any time. And the URL for your web site may not be included during the registration process, but after your registration has been approved just click on 'Your Settings' at the top of any message board page and add the URL in the 'Profile Information' section. Don't forget to scroll to the bottom of the page and click on 'Submit'.
Webmaster-CDSOA, Inc.
and the web team
Walt Bilofsky,
Bob Dugan, and
Ray Garcia
webmaster@capedory.org