Drupal sites are subject to web-bot registrations that target Drupal's /user/register url.
The Members Page module was crafted to fight this nuisance by creating a dedicated members page and registration page. The latter is available even if /user/register access is blocked. For added security, both page locations (url's) can be changed. Web-bots simply don't know where to look.
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The Members Page module is available for Drupal versions 6 & 7.
The Members page
The Members page has a two panel content block with 3 different viewing modes:
for the anonymous visitor
for the member -- a user who has logged in by way of a session cookie or by providing a valid username and password
for admins or members who have edit permissions
The visitor view has a greeting, a login block for existing members, and a link to a special registration form for new members. This registration form has elevated privileges. A visitor who completes this form will be registered immediately without admin approval (but still subject to email verification) regardless of the current site settings.
The members view has a greeting and a personalized configurable user-menu block.
Provides the ability to use external files with file fields without saving the files to your local files directory. Also provides a 'Remote URL' browser plugin for Media.
By default the module adds support for any URL using http://, https://, or feed://. Also note these stream wrappers are read-only and cannot perform any writing operations.