Spam List: Block 261022 Registration Email Domains

This mod allows you to block users from registering when their email address domain is on a spam list. There are currently 261022 email address domains on the included spam lists. There is one list for every 0-9, a-z character plus one exemption list. However, there is no guarantee that every entry on a list is a true spam domain.

The lists were compiled by combining a personal list with various online sources, none of which disallows use in a mod such as this. Therefore, brought to you is this spam list mod. You can add or remove entries from the spam list files. If you add an entry, make sure to add it as a lowercase entry. The plugin takes care of the rest.

The various spam list files range is size from about 4.0kb to around 0.4mb so be sure that you have enough memory available before installing this mod. The mod calls in the exemption list and one spam list file, and unsets them as soon as possible to free memory. If an email address domain is on the exemption list, it is not blocked.

Should a user be blocked from registering at your forum, an email will be sent to your vB webmasteremail address and the user will see the vB banemail phrase message, so no screenshot of this mod is necessary. Everything is in alphabetical order so if you do not like the spam list files, just make your own set of files. Enjoy!

[parabat]

Great work. Hopefully we can get rid of these damn spammers!!!

-PB

[calorie]

Thanks all. Hopefully it'll cut down the number of spammers who try and register on your sites. BTW, there were a couple of typos and a dupe on the spam list, since corrected, so now there's only 259989 email address domains on the spam list. Oh no!

[Harley77]

I can see a false entry from the start, @bellsouth.net is what Bellsouth telco gives to all their highspeed and dialup subscribers. Not only that, but you've also cut off aol customers also. And thats just the first two I looked for.

I think you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater on this one.

It's a great idea, But I would rather use a confirmed list of spam addresses.

[calorie]

Every entry on the spam list came from my personal list or an online source where the domain was listed because spam was sent from that domain. Even paid service providers get customers who send spam, but there is no guarantee that every entry on the list is a true spam domain. The neat thing here is that if you don't want to block a domain on the list, simply remove it from the list.

[bmwusa]

mm nice work...

but hotmail.com?

is consider a spam?

[Kihon Kata]

Yeah, I noticed that Yahoo.com and gmail.com also are in the list.

Originally Posted by bmwusa

mm nice work...

but hotmail.com?

is consider a spam?

[oberheimhaven]

Thanks M8 I have been having a horrible time they keep coming and coming I block and they still come back I hope this will be the answer to this problem
Thanks man!!

are there any functions to this in admin???

[furst]

There needs to be a more refined list for this. As it is, it would be preventing the registration of a whole lot of legitimate people.

[Kihon Kata]

Calorie: Can you answer why in the world Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, Gmail.com and AOL.com are on that list?

*Uninstalls until a better list is out.

[calorie]

Every entry on the spam list came from my personal list or an online source where the domain was listed because spam was sent from that domain. Personally I've had spammers post garbage using aol.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com, and yahoo.com email addresses, among others, but there is no guarantee that every entry on the list is a true spam domain. The neat thing here is that if you don't want to block a domain on the list, simply remove it from the list. It's up to you as to what you want to block.