Happy New Year Pedigree.

One consideration could be scanning the user database for existing users and checking for a match.

While the registration process helps prevent us against spammers as they sign up, having it run manually (or as a scheduled task) would allow us to ban users that have been identified as spammers by the community as a later date, thus reducing the risk of sleepers.

Already suggested this a while back :)

yeah, this is one for a seperate code base or an addition tp it due to the load it could cause of the database. 10,000 forum users = 50,000 possible fields to test, 1 email, 1 username, three ips (registered, confirmation ip, last activity) before you get into every post ip.

Hi pedigree,

Would it be possible for you to expand this mod to apply to guest posting too :) It would obviously only be able to perform an IP address check but that would be sufficient!

Dean

it will handle guest posting in the version im coding (slowly) at the moment

Does it handle guest posting slowly or you're coding it slowly ;-)

oh har har :)

personally, i think if you enable guest posting, youre inviting spammers to hammer the crap out of your board

I only allow it in news forums, so guests can comment on front page items, kind of like blogs :)

Great mod :D

What happens if www.stopforumspam.com/ is down?

What depends on your settings, i have set it to allow registration if site are down.