New Users??

has anyone else noticed odd new users lately?

today it's

AudreyLaLa
a191905766
Audrey05766
AudreyFong007
AudreyFong
AudreyLee
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a couple of days ago i saw a dozen or so variations of

-=-(-=-)-=-
--=(=-=)=--
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or the like.

thoughts? or have i just not noticed before and it's always happening?

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Re: New Users?? by The Mad Hatter (Priest) on Nov 11, 2003 at 05:59 UTC
See Removing user accounts, which brings to the attention these new users (well, not the /Audrey\w+/ ones).	[reply]
Re: New Users?? by meetraz (Hermit) on Nov 12, 2003 at 02:57 UTC
Probably just somebody's bot screwing around. Maybe perlmonks will need to add a GD-Generated graphics verification file, to do a "Human Test" similar to Ticketmaster, Hotmail, etc. A quick search on CPAN didn't turn anything up... This would be a good idea for a perl module. There's one written in PHP here.	[reply]