[Barteh]

Originally Posted by skippybosco

@Zi55: real time checks allow you to get matches on new spammers as they are attacking. The vB SFS plugin does cache data locally to avoid the SFS round trip if the spammer is in your local cache.

That being said, a spammer database is available for download here:

http://www.stopforumspam.com/downloads/

Would be interesting if vBSFS would offer the possibility of synchronising the full list to a local file, the way denyhosts grabs new IPs from the denyhosts database (50 at a time iirc) and adds them to hosts.deny. Both vastly reduces traffic to the SFS database and offers a fallback in case of connection problems to it