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Evaporate · #**271** 10-07-2008, 07:59 AM

Going to install this and isbot tonight . In the past 2 weeks I'm now getting 20-30 spammer bots a day sining up. 80% are gmail and the rest are .ru or .cn.

I found the stopforum spam link on google and was using it to stop the spammers (though most are quite obviously just random words jumbled together. )

Google should seek to remove the spammers as they are giving gmail a bad name imo.

Anyway after doing this manual process for a week or so I've given up and via the magic ofVbulletin.org search found this.

I will install tonight and look forward to reclaiming my time back. I've always had to manually accept users after they have verified there email so this has saved me from most of the forum spam.

Thanks for the mod anyway. As someone said Mod of the Millenium!

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