Spam List: Block 261022 Registration Email Domains
 

This mod allows you to block users from registering when their email address domain is on a spam list. There are currently 261022 email address domains on the included spam lists. There is one list for every 0-9, a-z character plus one exemption list. However, there is no guarantee that every entry on a list is a true spam domain.

The lists were compiled by combining a personal list with various online sources, none of which disallows use in a mod such as this. Therefore, brought to you is this spam list mod. You can add or remove entries from the spam list files. If you add an entry, make sure to add it as a lowercase entry. The plugin takes care of the rest.

The various spam list files range is size from about 4.0kb to around 0.4mb so be sure that you have enough memory available before installing this mod. The mod calls in the exemption list and one spam list file, and unsets them as soon as possible to free memory. If an email address domain is on the exemption list, it is not blocked.

Should a user be blocked from registering at your forum, an email will be sent to your vB webmasteremail address and the user will see the vB banemail phrase message, so no screenshot of this mod is necessary. Everything is in alphabetical order so if you do not like the spam list files, just make your own set of files. Enjoy!

If you encounter a spam registration email domain not already on the spam list, post it so others can add it to their spam list. If you know that a domain on the spam list is in fact not a spam domain, post it so others can remove it from their spam list. :)

Thanks, calorie! Installed. ;)

This is great, thanks for the cool hacks you've made. :)

*Install*

thanks for this cool hack.

I'm installing right now... and thanks!! i once had a hacker register.. and as soon as i spoke to him in the shoutbox.... it flooded my shout with a I've been hacked msg.... and the shout consequently crashed my server.... i have since deleted that account, but this will help tremendously.... i had started feeling vunerable....

Installs

Pure love here! Installed and will be spamming adding all 259990 to a nice mailers list I have already :cool:

good work thanks for sharing

Nicee..

Installed.

Great work. Hopefully we can get rid of these damn spammers!!!

-PB

Thanks all. Hopefully it'll cut down the number of spammers who try and register on your sites. BTW, there were a couple of typos and a dupe on the spam list, since corrected, so now there's only 259989 email address domains on the spam list. Oh no! :eek:

I can see a false entry from the start, @bellsouth.net is what Bellsouth telco gives to all their highspeed and dialup subscribers. Not only that, but you've also cut off aol customers also. And thats just the first two I looked for.

I think you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater on this one.

It's a great idea, But I would rather use a confirmed list of spam addresses.

Every entry on the spam list came from my personal list or an online source where the domain was listed because spam was sent from that domain. Even paid service providers get customers who send spam, but there is no guarantee that every entry on the list is a true spam domain. The neat thing here is that if you don't want to block a domain on the list, simply remove it from the list.

mm nice work...

but hotmail.com?

is consider a spam?

Yeah, I noticed that Yahoo.com and gmail.com also are in the list.

Thanks M8 I have been having a horrible time they keep coming and coming I block and they still come back I hope this will be the answer to this problem
Thanks man!!

are there any functions to this in admin???

There needs to be a more refined list for this. As it is, it would be preventing the registration of a whole lot of legitimate people.

Calorie: Can you answer why in the world Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, Gmail.com and AOL.com are on that list?

*Uninstalls until a better list is out.

Every entry on the spam list came from my personal list or an online source where the domain was listed because spam was sent from that domain. Personally I've had spammers post garbage using aol.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com, and yahoo.com email addresses, among others, but there is no guarantee that every entry on the list is a true spam domain. The neat thing here is that if you don't want to block a domain on the list, simply remove it from the list. It's up to you as to what you want to block.

Thanks Calorie,
great work indeed.

I think a more refined list is needed. Regardless of how many domains you can remove, there are far too many legitimate domains on this black list.

Aol, yahoo, gmail, hotmail all have spammers and legits. Domains like bellsouth & adelphia & comcast are all emails given directly by ISPs. This list is blocking way too many people even if you edit all these out, how many others are blocked that most folks don't know about from different ISP providers.

great mod!
guys its not hard to delete the list and make your own.

This will bring your server on it's knees for sure....

Tagging this.

Keeping my eye on this one. The majority of my registers use yahoo, hotmail or gmail as their primary address so I would be killing my board if I used this list as it stands.

:) Thnx for this great hack!

I agree great hack I just removed the domains I didn't want blacklisted, fairly simple to edit and have a great list.

Great work.

your a star for releasing this, you wouldn't believe the trouble i've had with stupid people registering to advertise healthy dieting and XXX material, as well as other crap i don't wish to have shown on my forums, this mod should definatly help.

FYI: 1033 more domains have been added to the spam list. Plus, there is now a spamlist_0_to_z.zip file attached to this release that contains the main spamlist.txt file broken into parts: spamlist_0.txt contains the domains that start with zero, spamlist_1.txt contains the domains that start with one, and so forth. Everything is in alphabetical order so if you don't like the main spamlist.txt file, just make your own list.

An email will be sent to your vB webmasteremail address whenever someone is blocked from registering at your forum. This webmasteremail will tell you the registration email address that was blocked, so you can remove the blocked domain from the main spamlist.txt file if you choose.

As the spamlist.txt file took some time to create, it's doubtful that further updates to this mod will be made, so please post any spam registration email domain not already on the spam list so others can add it to their list. Entries to the spamlist.txt file should be make in lowercase.

At a glance, it looks like an EXCELLENT update. I'll reinstall it soon.

Question, do we NOT use the spamlist.txt anymore? Just use the alphabetical/numerical one?

It's the same mod as before, except there are now 1033 more domians on the spam list and there is a spamlist_0_to_z.zip file available. The mod always was coded to send an email should a user be blocked from registering at your forum. The spamlist_0_to_z.zip file is to help you with making your own spamlist.txt file, if you don't want to use the one that is provided with the spamlist_product.zip file.

Perhaps if we as users can help the creator out by reporting any legitimate email accounts as we come across them? This is a good mod from what I can see and the vast majority of what is there are spam emails. It's caught at least 12 bad registrations for me since I installed it a yesterday but it caught a couple good ones. I've updated the file to remove those which are already named here:

@yahoo.com
@gmail.com
@hotmail.com
@bellsouth.net

There are other ccTLD domains for those as well.

Great idea! I second those ones by adding

@AOL.com
@yahoo.com
@gmail.com
@hotmail.com
@bellsouth.net

Great mod. I took hotmail, yahoo, aol and gmail off the list those are the email addresses that most of my users use including myself lol. Its simple to edit so this product is well worth it.

Well, I understand Gmail/Hotmail/AOL/Yahoo are on the list, I myself also get a lot of spam from these domains, sadly the majority of my users are using a free email, due to the average age (which should be around 15 on my forum), no doubt a nice mod, but I might use it later when I've got more time to check it out.

FYI: mod updated to v.1.0.1. It was changed to use one 0-9, a-z spam list plus one exemption list. The largest spam list file is now about 0.4mb instead of calling in the entire list. This was done so your server is happier with reading in the files, though if you want to remove entries, you now need to edit the 0-9, a-z spam list files. If you know of a domain that you don't want to block, you can add it to the do not block exemption list. Upgrade instructions are in the readme file.

Hi Calorie. Thanks for the update to 1.0.1. *Reinstalls.

Question: I noticed that all xxxx.rr.com emails are on the banned list. While I added some to the do_not_block.txt file, how can we allow ALL XXXXX.RR.COM emails?

Here are all the *.rr.com domains. Either remove them from the 0-9, a-z spamlist files or place them on the do not block exemption list.
I'm not sure whether or not I'll add a wildcard option, but if you have shell access, you can search for domains by using the following commands:
Alternatively, you could use your PC to search the spamlist directory, at least to find the spamlist files containing the domain pattern of interest.