The only thing I have seen is some people trying to register with a bogus email which they do often. Vbulletin will not allow this so they may try different emails. Just a thought

It turns out that the reason I am seeing multiple threads created on an RBL match is because they are being denied registration even though I have "Allow Registration from IPs on RBL" set to YES. I would like the registration to be successful.

Looks like a bug.

Do you have the latest version installed?

Yes, version 3.2

You guys ever come to a definitive conclusion on which proxy lists to use?

One thing I noticed. If you have this post in a forum. Then the poster shows as having posted using the IP that was denied. Which is undesirable to say the least.

I use the three mentioned a few threads back

Ha... you know I just noticed that today. I'll take a look at the code this weekend.

Does anyone have any "feature requests".

Daniel,

First off, thank you very much for this hack. I installed it on my boards recently and when I had "open" registrations, it caught over 50 people trying to register with open proxies. I followed the advice of another poster to this thread and I am NOT using any of the RBL's that include spammers. I'm using the following RBL's, in the following order:

proxies.dnsbl.sorbs.net
tor.ahbl.org
ircbl.ahbl.org
opm.tornevall.org
list.dsbl.org

I have found that about 90% of the open proxy IP's are being caught by list.dsbl.org

One thing I was wondering, I have the hack set to allow rbl ip's to complete the registration, then ban those users to a group I created specifically for this hack. I tried it myself and the "error message" I got, was:

"You have been banned for the following reason:

Date the ban will be lifted:
Never"

As you can see, no reason is given for why the user is being banned.

Is there a way to make it so that when a user registers with a "banned" RBL IP, it would give a user defined reason, such as "registering via an Open Proxy IP"?

I checked the vbulletin phrases and I'm guessing it uses the $vbphrase[nopermission_banned] variable.

Is there any way I can add a "reason" to that and have it display in conjuction with the RBL hack? I've gotten a few angry emails and I think it's because the people saw they were banned after registering, but it gave them no reason.

Any ideas on how to adjust that? I hope you can see what I'm talking about here. I'm fairly good at tweaking vbulletin the way I like it, but having a specific reason for this hack show up in the error message has me stumped.

Thank you again for an excellent hack and if there's any more info you need from me about this, please ask.

Corporal Clegg

This is my first kill.

I have a question. I received the PM from the program with this alert, but it was also supposed to post it in a hidden forum for the moderators.
Can this send the message to PM's and a forum, or just one or the other?
Do I use the full url of the forum or do I just write in the forum name and the ID number?