Spam emails; how to protect

[Vann]

Hi

I hope someone can help me with this two problems because I am clueless.  I already read the docs and searched the board but what I've found didn't really help me (unless I missed a sticky).


I've been getting weird user registrations which turn out to be some sort of spam, like words and arrows.  I read that this might be some type of crawlers and that they are checking to see just how much a registered user can do.  I've put registration and comment as admin approvals so I've been able to detect exactly which users there are.  I haven't blocked them with IPs because i know they can simply change IP, or their email.  What can I do to protect the gallery from them?  I don't have a link with an example because I erased the last ones since they are cumbersome.

This is my link: http://www.christinebaranski.fansites.me/cpg14x/index.php

[Vann]

I just read the 'how to prevent spam and bad robots without captcha' but I'm not sure if any of those would help me.

[Joachim Müller]

What's wrong with implementing Captcha?
BTW you need to upgrade - you're running cpg1.4.21, while the most recent stable release currently is cpg1.4.25

[Vann]

I can't seem to be able to find the captcha settings in the configuration tabs.  Can you direct me to a link where this has been posted, in case I missed it as well!


If I upgrade, will I lose the codding that I currently have?

So obviously a newbie here 

[Joe Carver]

The best thing newbies and older-bees can do is read the docs and search the support forum. Saves time and electrons

Upgrading: http://www.christinebaranski.fansites.me/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#14

Captcha:  http://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/index.php/topic,36319.0.html

reCAPTCHA: http://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/index.php/topic,60626.0.html

You must follow the preceding advice to upgrade before doing anything else!
(anything)