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Originally Posted by Lionel

I've installed my new product in conjunction with yours. Not one single bot since yesterday. :-) Down from 150 daily. They can't even go thru registration so no email is sent

Looks good - but now I feel like I'm a competitor.

Originally Posted by CLaNZeR

This is working great on 4.2 level patch 3

Stopped loads today since I installed it.

Still have to manually add the IP addresses to ban list, so that would be a great addition to this mod.

Good work.

Cheers

Sean.

Thanks. This is probably a good time to say, I give credit to users Max Taxable as well as calorie, because calorie wrote a mod many years ago that uses this idea, and Max Taxable has been recommending calorie's mod for a long time. I was actually skeptical because I always found that Q&A worked fine, but I can't argue with all the people who have found this method useful. Anyway, my only contribution is in making sure that an updated version of this idea remains available on vbulletin.org.

As for the ip banning, I was considering that, but the problem I have is that I feel if ips are going to be banned automatically, you also need a way to monitor the process and search and remove ips, as well as a way for someone to contact you if they get banned by mistake, and then it turns in to a major thing. What I was thinking of doing in the next release (some time this week) is to use the login "strikes" system so that at least it wouldn't be possible for anyone to try too often. I'm also going to try to include a summary email option instead of one per registration.