Antispam Mods for phpBB

One of the things we'd really like to do better on our sites is get more user contributed content. However, we always find it hard to find the time for application development, so we normally look around at open source solutions first. Forum wise, there's phpBB, and the main problem with this is that it attracts spammers. Our first foray into running a forum has been the Flat Screen Forum UK. We don't have many real users yet, but we certainly attract a lot of spammers. If you have this problem, a couple of easy things you can do are:

- Switch on Admin approval for all registrations. This way people can't post anything until Admin has approved them.

- Start adding given domains to the e-mail ban list.

We have a post on a4uforum that is yielding some useful advice.