Just tested this and using smilies (vB installed ones) does not flag the post as spam. Are you talking extenal ones linked to the post?

No. The internal VB smilies are actually links to /images/smilies/somesmiley.gif, which Stop Spam Links is picking up as spam link because our forums are hosted on a .com domain.

Is there any way to set an exclude list of addresses to be ignored?

Well, like I mentioned above, I tested this on my site and using smilies in the post does not trigger the stop spam links. Not sure why it's a problem for you.

The more I read about this MOD, the better it looks. Is there anyway for it to check emails for TLD's as well, or is that planned for a future release perhaps?

This MOD seems to have every advantage I can think of. Only disadvantage is the user's post is lost when the tripwire goes off.(vs. going into a moderation que for review/approval) Thus if a new user spent a lot of time typing up a first-new-post up, they'll lose it all...Am I correct in that assumption?

yes, unfortunately that's the downside. Whatever you put in the no spam message is what will apppear if they try to add links and they have not met the min post req.

For anyone else who wants to use it, here's my list..

I get this when anyone posts...

Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter. in /newreply.php(287) : eval()'d code on line 11

you have whitespace at the end of the list of terms, or two consecutive commas.

btw, just wanted to mention that i have changed the mod so that a space is used as delimeter instead of comma and i also increased the size of the text boxes in ACP.

Well I thought I was done with this mod but I guess not so I'll resume tinkering this weekens/beginning of next week to address some of the comments.

Yeah, still giving me the error.

The user looses their entire post sadly. I would keep using my other hack, but it messes up RSS.