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[ian]

The image recognition (which is setup for new registrations on the BB) thing is fine for stopping automated registrations, but not for real people. I think these people are just trying to get another place to put thier webpage URL's in order to improve thier search engine ranking.

One option might be to add a php modification to the BB code to ask one of more questions, and registration then wouldnt proceed unless they got these right. I did something similar for a php based BB I used to run. The trick would obviously be to make the questions hard enough to dissuade bogus people, but to not put-off genuine people. Usually there are hundereds of mods available for these BB's. Trick is finding the right one. Installing should be easy enough for anyone who has ever done any coding (and I think there are a few other geeks lurking here ;-)).

Ian