I think I've found the reason. I have renamed my register.php file to something else. Your plugin refers to register.php in two locations. I've manually edited the xml file to point to that new file and I am awaiting to see the results.

Well still no email messages and no posts in the thread that I've specified, but at least I am not receiving any registrations by spambots. I do not know if it is your hack that stops them, or something else, but I sure miss those emails that I got, they made me feel safe.

I'm not sure why that would happen. I guess you probably double checked the email addresses you're sending to. Did you set "Limit Notifications By Registration Time" to anything?

Nope, that was not the problem.

I am dead right now, it is 10:30 pm and we just returned from the kids soccer match, but if you agree, I can PM you tomorrow morning with all the details. I think I have a pretty good idea of what was happening.

If you feel like it, I have some ideas on how to improve this hack, I used to have all these implemented in my vb 3.0.13 site and we had reduced spam to almost none.

The hack works fine now, so don't worry about it. Email addresses were fine, and no I didn't have anything in Limit Notifications.

More tomorrow.

Absolutely, if you think you've got info that will help me figure out your problem, send it to me. And send me any other ideas you have for the mod, although I can't promise anything right now.

can you integrate stopforumspam database api check

Just use this hack and also use vbStopForumSpam. They work fine together.

This also works well beside spam-o-matic, which checks the db.

There's no conflict, that is true. But with this working, SoM will have little to do since it won't see autospam anymore.

That is true. Very few spammers get as far as SOM, on our forum, with this installed. But I still like having that extra layer of security :)

Some of them are hiring students to physically create the accounts, at human speed.