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16 		Try, Try Again
Filed under (Minor Details) by The Cubelodyte on April 16, 2008 @ 11:15 am

can of spamSpambot ahoy! This morning a new user account by the name of ralyjones25 was registered, with an e-mail address of raly.jones@gmail.com. Like its immediate predecessors, a quick Google search of that username returned over a couple thousand results, all of them from forum or blog user lists.

Looks like adding a captcha feature to your WordPress blog is probably a pretty good idea at this point. Register Plus is the only plugin I found that states it’s WP 2.5-compatible (there’s no mention of this on the author’s page, but the readme file in the download mentions 2.5 as well). If this “user” shows up on your blog, you’d do well to remove it.

 
  


Comments:
3 Comments posted on "Try, Try Again"
roryhyde on April 17th, 2008 at 4:25 PM #

thanks cubelodyte. just found ‘raly’ had registered on my site also. he’s ditched.


The Cubelodyte on April 17th, 2008 at 8:03 PM #

It’s all part of the service, friend. You’re welcome.


jeremy on April 18th, 2008 at 7:20 AM #

Raly registered on my site, too. Yesterday and today, actually, so I had to delete him twice. Your site was the first that came up to mention it, so I appreciate you putting the alert out there!


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