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papakeith
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Spike and CG,

You probably have this covered but I thought I'd throw this out to you.

I help run a couple of boards that use the same software RBers does.
On one of the boards we were getting slammed by 20-40 bots per day.
About the only thing that I've done that has any meaningful effect was to start a ban list of email addresses using widcards. By doing that we dropped down to 3-4 per week. As they pop up I add them to the list.

*@gmail
*@*.ru

are two of the best catch cans .

damn spammers
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I was seriously considering banning mail.ru, however -- I and several of our active members have gmail accounts, so that would sort of suck for us. :lol:
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I have customized the board so that there are non standard form parameters used for sign up. That has reduced the number greatly. Still have some work to go obviously.
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Post by papakeith »

another thing I saw that might work was a time limit for submitting the registration forms. If the form is filled out under 10 seconds or so chances are it's a spambot and denys the form.

They really are a pain to deal with.

gmail is the second highest spambotter I now have. .ru and .de were the tops before that
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