Wasn't there a 3.8 mod -back when- to pedigree's hack that auto-submitted to SFS if the registrar failed due to being listed on SFS already?

While bounces from obvious trashmail domains do not get you on the blacklist, other temporary email domains can get you on the blacklist. Blacklists are shared between email providers. As such your site can be marked as a spammer and then subscription emails stop arriving at various email domains.

You mean auto-bans bounced email?

I do not want to autoban bounced email. I want to autoban fake email domains and their aliases. I see this as one further step to make spamming a little more difficult.

Installed and within 2 hours it stopped 6 bots and did not let any in! I've been deleting about 20-25 Bots a day and it is such a pain in the butt.

Thanks so much for this, it's exactly what we were looking for!

*marked as installed! Great work!

It works in vB4.0.7 !!

If you can't provide the service of giving the API key then don't provide the mod.

I will be completely removing it from my server and never will I use this mod.

I have uninstalled this mod due to this: Message from your site,

Sorry

Due to abuse by certain people, we are currently limiting API signups to members of the forum. We are sorry that we have had to take this course of action but we hope to have things back to normal shortly

What the heck does this mean? :confused:

So, even if you have an API key, vbStopforumSpam site no longer checks for spammers unless you join their forums?

Regards,
Badger

Where did you see this written? Do you have a link?

Firstly, SᴩiDᴇЯ has zero idea what hes talking about

I stopped the system from being able to bulk issue API keys to anonymous users who simply provided an email address. We made it so that you needed to sign up to the forum, to validate your email address and thus record where you were coming from IN ORDER TO SUBMIT DATA

Then you could get an API key to SUBMIT to the database. You DONT NEED an api key in order to use the api.

I believe that you simply didnt read the mod details as it says "You need to have an API key from www.stopforumspam.com in order to submit data, its free and easy to get... You DONT need an API key in order to use this mod however, only to submit spammer data." Just under the big red letters. Unlike other lists of spammers, BotScout, project honeypot etc, where you are required to register to read the database, we dont do that.

If you want to remove the mod, then please do. Infact, I hope that you do, so that I dont have to deal with you again. Can you say "gift horse mouth"

As someone who obviously runs a forum, would you let people post on your forum without logging in or registering? No? Well, now, neither do we. For all the pain of joining our community to use a service provided for free, is that just perhaps a little too much to ask huh?

I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to join the SFS forum anyway. Lots of great folks and plenty of good community advice. My plug for SFS :)

Apparently someone was fatigued when reading the message about the API.

not sure if this has been answered and i don't feel like reading the whole 70 posts
i have this mod installed on my site , every so often it blocks legit people , is there anyway around this ?