David did do one thing for this show when he joined the phpBB teams: he found a bunch of team members who were anxious to be guest hosts on phpBB Weekly. On this episode, we’re joined by guest host Yuriy Rusko, better known on phpBB.com as Marshalrusty, a member of the Support Team.
First off, David and Yuriy talk about the first episode of the new Official phpBB Podcast, which I guess is meant to differentiate it from this podcast. But then, they end up talking about the Official phpBB Podcast so much, including recapping a bit on their talk about the COPA and COPPA laws, that this show effectively is now the phpBB Podcast podcast. 
However, we do have an interesting discussion with Yuriy about dealing with spam, (including CAPTCHAs and other anti-spam measures), security, and his experiences giving support for phpBB. David also takes a moment to recognize a few of the phpBB team members who have recently stepped down to return to their normal lives, and their many many contributions to the phpBB project.
The MOD of the Week is Font Type BBcode for phpBB2 by Templater, and the Style of the Week is BF Vista Style for phpBB3 by Frost.
If you want to recommend a MOD or Style for us to promote, bookmark it on del.icio.us with the tag “phpbbwmod” or “phpbbwstyle”, and we might feature it on a future episode.
Additional links mentioned during the show:
Marshalrusty’s Preventing SPAM post
Dave Rathbun’s Doctor Blog
Marshalrusty’s Registration Auth Code (RAC) MOD
Info/Application to be a MOD Team Member
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Tags: anti-spam, CAPTCHAs, contributions, COPA, COPPA, episode, guest, laws, Marshalrusty, members, Official phpBB Podcast, Support Team, team, Yuriy Rusko
September 11th, 2007 at 4:14 am
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September 12th, 2007 at 5:00 am
This was one of the best episodes yet. But Douglas PLEASE try to work on letting people finish talking before you say what you want to say. My gosh..lol
September 12th, 2007 at 5:52 am
It’s hard, because David and Yuriy are such good talkers! I’d never get a word in edgewise! This is one of the difficulties of audio only, it’s hard to have those visual cues that there are in face-to-face conversation.
You should have been there for the after-show (which didn’t get recorded unfortunately)–they were talking about all kinds of things for 15 minutes nonstop, until I finally had to interrupt them because I had to close up the TalkShoe stream and leave.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:18 am
Well, I understand it can be hard but…lol