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Originally Posted by ekantnl

if you are talking about the link in your sig, please double check your ban settings.

I am from the Netherlands and still able to walk in.

I went from 20-25 Amsterdam registrations per day to 2 in 2 days. I don't know why you were able to come in, but I'm okay with the ratio.

Originally Posted by Symbian.info

I'm also from the Netherlands and tried to register at your site (username Arjen). I still think it's a bit drastic to ban all of Holland for some Amsterdam spammers - there must be a better way - we're not banning all of Russia for a couple of Russian spammers either. I noticed that you're now using new account moderation and if you're not registered you can't even see the threads. If this is for Dutch IP's only I can understand (did I mention already that I think this is a bit drastic?), but if this is for everybody, I would expect the number of new registrations to go down and your Google ranking to drop tremendously.

If I have the same problem with Russia, I'll ban the entire country. There aren't all that many Hayabusa's in Russia. And if you own a Hayabusa, you'll be the only member on my forum from the Netherlands that actually does.

I have to weigh the options of either banning an entire country that has proved to be one of the biggest breeding grounds for spammers, or worrying that a scumbag spammer will join my community and post Hentia porn in a random thread. I run one of the very few motorcycle forums that doesn't allow members use profanity, never mind porn.

Don't get me wrong, I love porn but not on my forum.

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Originally Posted by TSHNOFX

Ban their IP ranges hostside via cpanel(Assuming you have it).

Ex, if their IP is 44.444.44.444 you'd enter 44.444.44.

Since the range is entirely that amsterdam bot's thing, it blocks a ton of bots.

Here's a mini-list of a bunch of bots' IP's.

http://pastebin.com/f4e6529c5

Also wise that you set to where you approve members first, then do a whois on the ip. If it's bad, block the range.

Do you think banning the IP in cpanel is more effective than banning the IP in cpanel?

Members have to be approved first. But I was spending waaaaay to much time going through Arin checks only to see a 90% ratio of Amsterdam spammers.

Thanks!