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Originally Posted by Barcham
It works great. Blocked 25 so far and just keeps on going. Sure, some if not all of those may have been blocked by Spam Hammer or Proxy alert but I had at least 2 per day getting through and being able to register. Since I installed this mod, not one bot has made it in.
I did find it surprising, however, that every user agent blocked so far has been either an iPhone or iPod.
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The spam programs can spoof the user agent string. I have seen it happen on my board - failing to get in with IE 6 suddenly I see i-phone from exact IP and provider, not even 10 seconds later.
That's why this is a excellent bullet to have in the anti-spam gun. Still another layer.