[Lynne]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Back in the days of vB 3.0.xx when I first dealt with vB, purchased my first license and started my first site, I spend quite some time to learn php and vB's coding scheme. Seeing the various things that could be improved in the code, and after years of work, I've ended up with a heavily patched version of vB, which included a mod I published in here, called AWS (for Advanced Warning System). That mod included a number of anti-spam traps, a time limit for the registration process (just like this mod), comparison between the country entered by the member vs the location indicated by his IP address, comparison of the time zone he entered with the time zone of the country indicated by his IP address etc.

So vB knows about these things, since version 3.0. Why they do not bother to include them in their software?

The obvious answer is, because they do not care.

That may be an obvious answer to you, but it is wrong. As soon a vB includes something like this in the default software, the spammers will just catch on and change their scripts to 'break' this. Spam is better dealt with through the many different modifications around.