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Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

No, it was non of those scenarios.

I spoke directly to the Sun employee, who is very professional and very intelligent. They were actually kind enough to contact us and tell us of the problem.

I have a lot of experience with problems with abuse of user-generated blacklists for anti-spam, etc going back nearly 15 years.

The database used for this mod has serious problems.

I like your strategies above to reduce impact and will consider them before removing this mod, which is causing more problems than benefit as our other anti-spam plugins that do not use the Stop Forum Spam database are "pretty good" and do not lock out perfectly good registrations!

PS: There is no way we will spend time reporting problems to the Stop Forum Spam admins. This would take more time that deleting spammers!! The admins of Stop Forum Spam should validate better. Their system is really bad and does block good people consistently, we have seen this.

In addition, anyone can report an IP address and use this malicious to hurt others. It is unfair to put the validation on the end user or forums who have problems. The db should have a better validation algorithm, period!

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Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

You are entitled to your opinion. I am entitled to mine. You are not going to change
mine by arguing with me or acting as if you know more than people you disagree with. All you are going to accomplish is to alienate me because you disagree. So be it.

# whois 192.18.8.1

OrgName: Sun Microsystems, Inc
OrgID: SUN
Address: 4150 Network Circle
City: Santa Clara
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 95054
Country: US

I don't like your combative tone. You can't accept a different view because you are so attached to your work. You act like it is perfectly acceptable for a professional at Sun to be locked out frustrated and that he must spend time to contact a crappy database because the database is so polluted. Nonsense, IMHO. You are free to have a less respectful opinion about your potential forum members

The only reason our admins (including me) got involved was because the user was kind enough to contact us (very unhappy and frustrated three times) and ask....

Why Is Your Site Blocking Us???

We apologized and disabled IP checking. I doubt we will turn it on again, and may consider de-installing the mod.

False positive blocks are not acceptable to us.

The Stop Forum Spam db is polluted.

Im going to quote this, for future reference, should imported_silkroad decide to edit his post... =