I am still here but I really don't have the time to fully support the mod. Glowhost took the code and added to it for Spam-o-matic, which will provide protection for vb4+, and if there are any show stoppers, then I can provide some support for it on the stopforumspam.com website which I run.

Most of the issues are around no open_url and/or curl access, which I've really answered to death.

The good news is that I will be releasing this for vb5 when its released. I'm just waiting for some code to be made available.

@semprot thats up to you, you can let them register or you can block it. The stopforumspam servers are up and working and the error means that your server cannot contact the stopforumspam.com servers via file_get_contents and/or curl.

One suggestion to save answering your favorite question to death is in the settings in the admin panel, put a bold red warning when open_url and/or curl access is not available. That's what I do on my arcade script I am releasing. Of course cURL is hard to detect on some servers.

when I do the next version, for vb5, then I will include this and a lot more. memcache / redis and APC detection and caching, form validation and reporting.

Awesome - glad to see you are still actively developing this!

Good work!

I just had a new user sign up using the IP 173.213.108.208. Looking at it on stopforumspam there are 13 entries for it in Feb and Mar yet the registration was allowed???

I've noticed that a lot of the users registering on our forums have banned IP addresses on stopforumspam. About 2/3rds of the signups are now successfully getting banned, but I would estimate that more like 4/5ths of the signups should be banned. The most recent IP address allowed to signup is 199.87.229.22. Its in the stopforumspam database several times, including 5 days ago.

Is there an adjustment I need to make to ensure that all IP addresses that appear in the stopforumspam database get banned from signing up on our forums?

Suggestions are welcome. We are running the latest 4.2 install of VB.

Thank you.

This mod is breaking. It's letting registrations through when IPs and emails are listed on the StopForumSpam database.

We since switched to Glowhost Spam-o-matic. It also uses the stopforumspam db, and works with registration, posts and much more. We are on 4.2.x