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counterpoint · #**228** 06-25-2008, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by webspider

As far as I can tell no not completely. It does part of the job but fails on the auto banning. I'm using it anyways on 3.7 as one more deterrent.

Thanks, on that basis I've implemented it.

A couple of other questions. The introduction gives reasons for banning proxies, but does not make it clear whether this product implements a ban, or whether the author is recommending that something else should be used to block proxies. If the latter, is there a reliable, supported proxy blocker?

With RBL implemented, it seems to be blocking only a minority of spammers. Is there anything else that can be done?

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