Spotted a bot trying to sign up a couple of times now. It's not getting through but the message in the log is

Not sure if that's a bug due to the "+" in the email address or not. But thought I'd flag it up for you anyway.

Thanks again for your work with this. It's saving me so much time.

Sy

For August 2008, Out of the 3580 registrations on my site for the 31 day period

~4%/150 were caught by SFS Email check
~17%/640 were caught by SFS UserID check
~36%/1300 were caught by SFS IP check
~41%/1490 valid registrations

1) Spammers caught by Email check are back in my normal range (not sure why it spiked to 10% last month)
2) Valid registration sticking at 41% for two months in a row now. Would like to see it higher, but much better than the 20-25% I was seeing For the first half of the year.

Ive had a look at the results that the remote site gives when using a plus addressed email. It response with "invalid email address" and as the result isnt in the XML-ish that its expected, the mod assumes that it got an error, which it did in a way. Ive reported it to the remote site for investigation as email addresses can have (RFC says) a-z 0-9 % - + _ .

I wonder if its a method identified by spammers or just luck, either way, if I dont get a response from the remote site about this, Ill add code to handle "remotely reported invalid email addresses" properly.

1490 valid registrations, Im lucky if I get that in hits per month :)

Skippy, did you notice the PM to the 0.7 beta site?

hi,

You can add in your description that it works on vb 3.7.3 just fine.It just catched two spammers trying to register

Awesome. Thanks for the quick reply.

Sy

Where can i see this?

Alfa1 i think skippy drew up those numbers from logs as there isnt a reporting tool in 0.61

Ah. I see. Thanks.

I seriously have no idea what I'd do without this mod! Thank you so much again for releasing it. We block approximately 15-25 spammers from signing up daily with it.