New Message: [FEATURE REQUEST] A way to block automated website creation

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$1305

By: Thomas A. Creedon (thomas at creedon.net)

Hello UserLand,

I have noticed a new trend in the war on SPAM. It seems there are now bots/scripts that are specifically targeting Manila's site creation form and automatically creating websites at an increasingly annoying rate.

Ideally, however such a feature was implemented wouldn't require a round trip to email to create a website. That works well for member sign up but wouldn't be good for site creation.

Just wanted to get this out there so folks can be thinking about it. I don't have a ready solution in mind but if folks have ideas! Let us know!

Toodle-loooooooo..........
Thomas

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