That was it... thanks Pedigree!!! I must say, this mod has significantly reduced the amount of time I spend cleaning up spam posts and users.

Installed on 11/23/2009 - haven't seen a spammer since but the log shows 2800+ blocked registrations (and 85 allowed).

Awesome!

So does this work with 4.0?

Can it be setup to redirect users to "stopforumspam.com" ? if they are on the list?

edit the error message and put a link in there

Sorry to bring up an old post, but I don't see any option to add a username exception to any whitelist. I know that proper whitelisting was pushed to another version, but if that's the case, what is the existing option you mentioned?

Right now there's a user who can't register with their username because it has the same mix of caps/lowercase characters of a username being blocked.

Option A: turn off username checking til after this person registers. Only IPs and/or email addresses will be checked against SFS this way.

Option B: have the person register with another name, then you enter their record in AdminCP and change it to their preferred username.

or create his account and give him the password

the search is not case sensitive

That's what I thought, but from the earlier posts it sounded as though people found a place to put exceptions.

Thanks!

Works great, thanks.

Installed it without problems. reCaptcha and NoSpam! weren't enough to stop them.