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Originally Posted by apleschu

I am certain for now this is precisely what happens, until there are enough sites where they are starting to investigate why they no longer can register as they 'used to'. The whole spam, anti spam is after all a whack a mole game. It was that for many years and will be for many years to come. So basically a fair assumption is that over time spambots will learn that it is much more effective to wait for 'x' seconds and then send the registration screen back. That would be a simple change in the spambot and over time they will do that. Its just a question when, not if.

I agree with you. I think it's a given that if this were a built in feature of vbulletin, it would have been defeated long ago. It would actually be fairly trivial for a programmer who knew what they were doing.

I would offer my help in getting a log file into the mod if nothing else because I'd love to have it and I am fairly certain some other folks would be able to get some insight as well. e.g. Right now I believe its about 70% yahoo.com addresses responsible for the spam registration attempts, but I'd love to be able to have real data, not just "gut" data.

Yeah, I had a version of this that I reworked and never released that had all the data collected, it just needed the actual logging code. I'm not sure if I still have that around. But the major obstacle for me is that I haven't looked at this code in a long time. Well, it's not much of an obstacle but it's been enough to keep me from thinking about it.