[BadgerDog]

Follow up ...

A great idea for a mod and in my opinion, badly needed, however, it has one caveat that everyone should be aware of, already pointed out by bop5 ...

NOTE: There are PERFECTLY valid reasons 2 or more users may share the same IP address. This report in and of itself is not proof of malicious activity. Users that connect by mobile devices, work in same offices, or go to the same schools for example would likely share the same IP address on some posts. So would too any users connecting from the same home or public Wi-Fi network.

According to the output from this mod, I have a single IP address 132.3.33.68 being shared as a registration IP by 7 different users. It's absolutely correct, except the IP address is from a military base where IP addresses are rotated and assigned randomly (and re-used). All 7 members are legitimate and not spammers etc,. so one has to be careful as to how to use the information provided.

It's very common for dial-up and internal networks to re-use and re-assign outbound IP addresses, so unless there's a way of ensuring that the multiple registrations (or posts) come from a specific machine, it's a bit of leap to assume too much. I also use the "cookie" based program which does run for me under 4.1.3pl5 and yes, cookies can be deleted, but I find it's been 90% plus in nailing spammers and other dysfunctional folks who have tried to register 0r re-register under different names.

I don't know if this mod could be enhanced to add "cookies" or some other method to furthe narrow the data, so good guys aren't inadvertently nailed along with bad guys ....

Nice work BOP5 .. appreciate your efforts ...

Regards,
Doug