I've been using this site for the last couple of weeks to compare some IP addresses that I've seen hanging around on my site trying to register. Are there any other sites that any of you use that are helpful with this as well?

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The Akismet integration into vb3.7 has helped a lot, it doesn't stop people from signing up, but it does hold back the posts until I can confirm they're spam.

I'm not a big fan of banning IPs as it's too easy to ban an ISP's proxy server (like AOL) and that would stop other people from registering.

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I hadn't read about the new feature in 3.7.0

I will be upgrading soon, so I look forward to that feature along with the albums as well.

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When they started registering, started banning their e-mail addresses.
And it worked like a charm... Though i haven't had more than a dozen of them spammers.

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I wouldn't use this list, there are millions of spammers and a single list isn't going to be able to hold them all, and I wouldn't want a good user to be blocked because a spammer had their IP address in a past connection

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I am using this one, and it blocks at least 10-15 spambots from registering a day.

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Good luck.

hm, I might have to check this out

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What I've been doing with the list is taking a look at the IP, then seeing if the same username was being used with multiple e-mail addresses. Then, blocking those e-mail addresses by adding them to the ban list. I'll never be able to get to them all, but just a few here and there that I'm trying to avoid.

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We have been getting a lot of new members lately and although they don't post anything, until recently, when I checked what they have posted it was mixture of game websites and porn.

The first name I put into the search engine shows four same usernames from three email accounts, all these originate from China.

So thanks for the link.

I use this as well, though it blocks alot of spammers, some how alot of valid email extensions have been caught up in there as well. Besure to include the most popular ones in the do-no-block.txt list that comes with the addon./

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