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I have the same problem with one of my forum. For now, in addition to email activation, I also put that admin has to validate new user registrations, since they usually use obvious spam emails, I guess I can delete the users before they post the spam. But, it’s just a temporary solution for now…
I have quite a lot of non-gambling forums and they have historically always been targetted by such spammers, even ones with hardly any members and no posts for months. Yet my main casino/poker forum with nearly 5000 members has never been spammed, weird eh.
Anyway I took precautions and got someone from http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/ to put in a whole anti-spammer control panel with many great features. They will usually do it on a volunteer basis and then you can make a donation. Depends if you use phpbb or not of course though :1circling
I have had that problem too and banning them by ip doesnt stop them,
banning by IP doesn’t always help because they tend to use spoof IP’s so you ban them today, and they use a new IP tomorrow.
Forcing activation by email seems to help some, because alot of them used to use fake email addresses, and that got rid of lots.. banning *mail.ru and *cashette.com helps quite a bit in my forums. I also work for a few forums here, and have noticed that those two emails seem to be repeat offenders just about everywhere, by the time i realized the trend I had about 100 members with those email addresses that I had banned by IP.
I’m also very interested in the mod, and do use a couple phpbb forums, going to check that out now
Anyone know if VB or IPB has a simular option?
