I installed this on 365 (which does have the needed hook). However, I tried registering myself more than once and it allowed me through after a relatively long wait. I did set the system to allow registration if there is a timeout/error. However, I don't see any record of the two attempts in the "vbStopForumSpam Logs".

Is the server still working with this? How can I test to make sure this plugin is still working and not just timing out every time?

Thanks
-vissa

It appears to only log blocked accounts. I can verify that it is working with 365.. Now to test with 3.7!!

-vissa

I will have to look at the code when I get home tomorrow but it should log timeouts. Ill reverify this and if its not the case, then make sure it logs this. Ill add an option to log everything as well, all tests, all timeouts etc, this will tell people exactly whats going on.

I have had at least 1 user report their friend could not register due to a fatal error.. This is using 3.6.5 w/vbseo

Errror below (some details changed to xxx)

Looks like the above error only occurs for usernames that have a SPACE in them... You can temporarily turn off the username check to avoid this for now (though a few extra spammers might get through).... A bug in the code somewhere?

-vissa

0.4 uploaded and it should fix this issue

First off, thank you. Great Mod.

A couple of responses to previous comments as well as a few suggestions.

Regrading not StopFormSpam not having a complete list of SPAM IP/Email/Names, this is a moving target and a service is only as good as the data that feeds it and the sources that generate that data. It seems like the more of us that use this plug in (with our API keys enabled) the more we build up the StopForumSpam database.

Regarding usage when SFS is offline, perhaps caching a copy of the IP CSV locally (refreshing once an hour (or other configurable threshold)

I thought about caching the IP stuff locally. Im not sure if russ would appreciate an hourly download but a daily one might be viable. Ill look how I could add it to v1 :) It shouldnt be too hard as it caches IP data anyway.

Doesnt seem to work on 3.7 RC1.. just hangs up after you fill out the registration form.

Thanks pedigree, left it over at the SF Forum, but to echo it here:

Couple more suggestions:

1) Make the usernames in the VBStopForumSpam Log linkable to the user record so that when reviewing the log we can easily click to open that user and delete / ban

2) When adding the ability to "Add user to StopForum" I would love to see it in 2 places: a) the thread/post itself for deleting thread/post, deleting (or banning?) user and reporting to StopForum in one click b) the user drop down within a thread/post to delete and report user c) in the User record in Admin to select delete and report as a drop down option.

I had 10 or so slip by this morning and was looking high and low for the submit to SF option only to come back here and see it has not been added yet, doh!