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Max Taxable · #**298** 01-21-2014, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by sv1cec

Still, maybe I had 10 complaints from people whose IP was banned and they were innocent. But those were dynamic IPs, so it doesn't mean they were banned in error.

One is one too many. Today there's nothing gained by banning IPs, it's ineffective and it's only going to block legitimate people.

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A never ending war, that's what we are involved in, folks!

Yup.

Our challenge and meter is much more difficult than the spammers. Ours is, stopping the spammers without blocking or annoying legitimate people.

But... We are smarter and also better looking then the spammers, this is why they are bottom feeders to start with.

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