So to update from the 3.6 version we can just import the next XML file?

What I did for the time being was to export the entire Users table in the PHPmyAdmin product as a CSV file, deleted all the unimportant fields, then I designed a form in VB.NET to open the exported CSV file, parse it line by line and add the contents into a listbox, and then roll through the listbox, serially building a URL string with all 3 parameters as you had showed us, and parse the returned pages for the markers on whether they were identified as spammers. Since our board has only 500 members it went well.

Just import the XML file in the zip file after uploading the contents of the "Upload" folder to the root of your forum

It would be nice to have a feature to search for already registered users for spammers like if i installed vbstopforumspam it would search for everyone that was already register to see if their emails/IP's show up in the stopforumspam database.

<a href="https://www.stopforumspam.com" target="_blank">www.stopforumspam.com</a> XML response is giving errors for the non spammers....
<response success=" <type>ip</type>
<appears>no</appears>
<frequency>0</frequency>
</response>

Should be

<response success="false">
<type>ip</type>
<appears>no</appears>
<frequency>0</frequency>
</response>

And I cant contact them!

You just did, Ill pull the source code and look at this.

Edit : Just fixed it. Im not sure who editted that api file in the SVN but its fixed now.

I just installed a clean 3.8.4 and imported the plugin (once I enabled plugins) and it installed with no issues at all.

just installed. i'm excited about this. we have a pretty high traffic board and get maybe one new spammer a day. they go right past capatcha and projecthoneypot. obviously user assisted. we manually check all new users against stopforumspam and i was getting ready to write the new 3.8 code but lucky stumbled on to this.

we'll keep a close eye on the logs and do some testing. i hope this adds another layer for them to battle. we might not be able to stop them but we can make it pretty damn difficult and annoying to get at us. lol

thank you for this. we'll give an update in a week and let you know how it goes for us.

This has been working fine so far. One more thing I've done is to delete the "Welcome to our newest member" line from the index page. I see no reason to reward a spammer for registering.

Good idea; it does usually say something like "Welcome to our newest member: nFRRserfa2Dfhkjj3." because the ratio of spammers to non-vampires is at least 4 to 1. :)