Raven’s Antispam

Raven’s Anti­spam is a mod­i­fi­ca­tion to the pop­u­lar phpBB mes­sage board sys­tem. It is com­pat­i­ble with phpBB ver­sion 2.0.23, the last sta­ble release of the 2.0.x series. No plans are in place to port Raven’s Anti­spam to the new 3.0.x series.

Raven’s Anti­spam puts an end to auto­mated mes­sage board spam — in the form of reg­is­tra­tions or posts — imme­di­ately. It just works. Note that humans may still spam your boards; robots, how­ever, will be stopped cold.

Users who have JavaScript enabled will notice no dif­fer­ence in how the board works; if JavaScript is dis­abled, logged-out users will see a spe­cial field which will need to be com­pleted at reg­is­tra­tion and when posting.

Down­load

• Raven’s Anti­spam 1.2.0

Instal­la­tion

• Down­load the MOD (see above).
• Extract the files.
• Fol­low the direc­tions in the file ravens-antispam.mod. This is a plain text file which should open fine with Notepad, Word­Pad, or similar.
• That’s it! Go ahead and dis­able any Visual Con­fir­ma­tion (CAPTCHA) pro­tec­tions you have enabled. Actu­ally, go ahead and enable guest post­ing to your forums too, if you want. Spam bots will no longer be a nuisance!
• Optional: A link in your board’s footer back to this page would be appre­ci­ated so that other phpBB 2.0.x users will know where to find this mod­i­fi­ca­tion so that they too can enjoy a spam-free board.

Credit

Raven’s Anti­spam for phpBB is based upon Raven’s Anti­spam for Word­Press. I ported it to phpBB with the orig­i­nal author’s permission.

License

Raven’s Anti­spam is released under the GPL.