[imported_silkroad]

Locking out one potential legitimate forum user (a false positive) from a company like Sun Microsystems (or any good company) is not worth the benefit of the few spam posts that occasionally make it past a captcha or random question anti-spam measure.

Our forums (obviously it seems) value members and users more than those here demonizing our concerns, which we voiced here as an FYI only. Weaknesses in user generated rule-based lists are well established. Here is a statement from the user who was locked out by this software and the DB:

Re: StopForumSpam DB and Sun
Hahaha. Thanks for the info.

Few more in formations:

The server which I'm using a shared SunRay server. It's used for internal needs I think.

And most of my frustration was from the fact that I had no clue why my registration was invalid. I got an info that I'm a spammer and nothing else. Was that because of my login / email / IP address? I can't recall the exact error message, but I can't remember anything like this. I could overlooked something, but I don't think that the case.

Thanks for help that time. I'm not a happy camper.

Pedigree and others can demonize me (and others) for telling the truth, if it makes them feel good. However, as for us, we value our users much more than folks here, anti-spam at any cost zealots, seem to.

As I said, we have disabled IP checking in this mod and may disable the entire mod if we see more false positive complaints from our user base. We don't need a mod that locks out legitimate users via a polluted database generated.

My apologies if the developer's feelings are so fragile that he cannot deal with the fact that this mod and the DB is guilty of false positives and locking out valid forum members.

The truth is obvious and there is no reason for emotional argument and debates on this topic.

I will never understand why technical people become so in love with a technology that they will demonize anyone who does not stand up and shout "how much they love it".

This mod is useful, but it is far from a perfect system.