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Will this work to ban mass spammers?

 
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Jim Ryder



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:46 pm    Post subject: Will this work to ban mass spammers? Reply with quote
The spam bots have been attacking my site...about 2 dozen per day. After looking up the users, I have found a majority of them have .org, .info at the end of their email address.

I tried something today that I don't know if it will work yet. I banned email addresses as such:
*@*.org
*@*.info

Since no legitimate users registering on my site have .org or .info in their email address, I'm hoping that it will work. You think??
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
yes this will work ok, but are some users that use *.org e-mails and are real users. Anyway this can diminuate a little the spam Smile

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Jim Ryder



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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yes this will work ok, but are some users that use *.org e-mails and are real users. Anyway this can diminuate a little the spam Smile

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You're right! I haven't had any .org or .info's register since I did the double asterick trick. I can tell people in my welcome post that they have to register with an email that doesn't contain .org or .info...and any others that I should ban via double asterick.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
First i think you need to send a message to all users and tell them to change their *.org or *.info to other e-mails because they are banned now and can not acces the forum anymore because that restriction. (if you have allready real registered users with such e-mail addresses

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