How to stop spam in PHPBB3 ?

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Published on 2009-09-01T14:28:05Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 15:04 UTC
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I'm getting awful lot of spam to my forums where only registered users can post and captcha is in use. What could we best solution to stop spammers registering to my forums?

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