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There has been a lot of discussion here recently regarding strange users registering on my site. There have been several potential solutions discussed as well. One of the solutions discussed is to use CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to prevent spam bots from registering on your site. To address this need, I have released gl-captcha-1.0, a CAPTCHA implementation for Geeklog utilizing the custom registration feature.

gl-captcha-1.0 is a combination of the previous beta releases and contains both the dynamic and static image support. This version also supports the use of a language file and improvements to the memberdetail.thtml template to allow users to refresh the CAPTCHA image and to email the administrator if having difficulties registering.

Three months ago, we released an update for Geeklog's Trackback handling that stopped Trackback spam by simply checking if the site in the Trackback URL was actually linking to your site. At least one spammer has now figured out how to circumvent that check and so it's time for the next round ...

Yet another update for Geeklog's lib-trackback.php is now available for download. This is a drop-in replacement for the lib-trackback.php of all Geeklog 1.4.0 releases (up to and including 1.4.0sr5-1).

Note: The download link was still pointing to the old file. If you downloaded it before September 15th, 2006 2 PM EDT, please download it again to get the correct version!

The Geeklog Wiki may be down for a few days while Tom Willet (who's hosting it) is moving. We'll let you know when it's back up.

[Update: It's back up. Thanks, Tom!]