[Corporal Clegg]

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