[Simon Lloyd]

Again, thanks for the responses, i've tinkered ever so slightly with responses.inc.php to add the url to my helpdesk just before

', 'log' =>

I assume the url won't be parsed in this fashion, it's not a problem if it doesn't.

I see that what you're trying to do is commendable and fantastic, you've saved my bandwidth usage no end (when next months revenue comes in i'll make a donation....already did to project honey pot as i thought that was yours, was still a worthy donation), what i do see is that if you did fill the request to have every visitors user agent...etc checked with projecthoneypot, htppBL and every entry in your own database to summise it's a registered user then the server load and resource usage would kill your forum (on a busy one anyway or if you are running VPS or VM's).

I believe the way you are tackling it is the most sensible, the honing of this software and minimising the effect on honest organics is definitely the way to go. I guess the only other option for "suspect" real users is to filter those through to another list or moderated usergroup so they can then be contacted through the forum for an organic response this way you would also capture any secondary ip they may be using to allow you to whitelist them, perhaps to this end is it possible to add to your roadmap 3.0 to have the whitelist (and maybe a blacklist) integrated into vBBB so that it can be edited directly in admincp>vb Bad Behaviour Options (probably one for Eric?)?

Anyway above all, another great big thanks to you guys, nominated MOTM