Forum Spambots hammering registration form
 

Hi,

I've been having some trouble with spambots for some time now, but over the last week it's been getting especially bad. In the past, as advised here, I set up a newbie group and got rid of a lot of spam that way, but some got through and it was hell to moderate. In the last week, I installed a bunch of anti-spam mods and I'm happy to say that it's been quite effective, nothing is getting through anymore. The problem is that bots are still trying to register nonstop. My hosting company (Hostgator) has been sending me emails about this.

Apparently they had to suspend the register.php script because of server load. In the email, there's a huge list of recent site requests and they all lead to the register.php page. So the problem isn't so much that spambots are getting onto my forum, but that they are getting to the page and just bogging down the site. What can I do about this?