Like everyone else, I've had my fill of the number of spam posts recently making it into the forum so I've been spending the past few days installing a few bits and pieces of code that should reduce the spam flood to a trickle over the next few days.

This is still very much code that needs to be tested and tweaked so please bear with me while I try to get it sorted out. If you notice a problem please could you email:
test (aT) snailsource (doT) com

and I'll check for problems..

Thanks


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I've been doing some bug testing today but with a little luck you should start noticing some improvements shortly..

The following changes have been enabled:

• IpSpoof detection - Any spoofed IP addresses will stop the user from being able to register
  
• Open Proxy use - Using an open proxy to hide your identity on an open/public site like this usually means you're up to no good so you'll be blocked.
  
• Bot post prevention - Basically if you're a bot you'll get the preview page and not be able to submit a post
  
• Harsher spamword list - spamwords have been tightened and will be detected in registrations, profiles, posts, and email addresses.

I am also considering banning the web.de email domain as the number of bot spam posts from there is reaching stupid proportions.


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