Would be interesting if vBSFS would offer the possibility of synchronising the full list to a local file, the way denyhosts grabs new IPs from the denyhosts database (50 at a time iirc) and adds them to hosts.deny. Both vastly reduces traffic to the SFS database and offers a fallback in case of connection problems to it :)

that is what the local caching of the db does in this plugin. it only makes a call to the sfs if the registrant is not in the local file. that file is updated periodically based on settings.

Was thinking of a *full* copy being synced :)
I suppose I could increase the time limit for that, at the moment it only stores recent query results for 30 mins. A week (10080 mins) shouldn't be a problem I reckon.

Thanks for a great mod! :up:

It's working brilliantly for me. Now I need to work out the best way to do my bit to add to the SFS database.

I've installed the mod from Wired1, but is there currently any way to report spammers from the "vbStopForumSpam Log Viewer" page? I don't think so, but I may have missed something.

A checkbox for multiple selections would make it very quick to use, and would be an easy way of reporting obvious spammers that aren't in the SFS database, but don't get past the VB captcha etc.

Thanks for the feedback, Ive been a little slack over the last week in keeping up the date with the thread but I do have a bit of good news

gmail.com - I hate it. I hate it because they normalise all the email addresses. It removes all the .'s and ignores everything to the right of a + in an email address

spammer joeblogs@gmail.com registers and uses joe...b.l.o.g.s@gmail.com or joe.blogs+spam@gmail.com and it all gets delivered to the same account but this throws the api as it did a like for like comparison... until now

I spent the last week running tests on a new code and database revisions on the stopforumspam.com website

So now if joe...blogs+aaakslsl@gmail.com registers on your forum and joe..blogs+ss11.......1.1.1.1@gmail.com has been listed as a spammer, youll get a positive hit and the registration will be denied.

Nicely done! I'm new to the mod (installed yesterday) but it seems great. I appreciate all the coders work around here! This mod definitely seems like a must. :) I was unaware that stopforumspam was you though! I've been using that resource for a while now :)
Andrew

its not me as such, I just do most of the coding and database maintenance there at the moment.

Ahh I see. Well, good work on any account :) especially with gmail being such a factor of spam... and their high usage of periods in email addys so far it seems.

Im going to test install on Beta 5

Great, Ive only been able to test it on beta 3 so I look forward to being able to update the mod description with "works in 4.0 beta 5" :)