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Originally posted by pbanks pbanks wrote:

Are you sure about the exact positioning in line 634 of register.asp of the code?


No, it probably varies with version of the forum base. I placed it at the end of the section commented "check email domain is not banned"  The function call sets the same variable as though the email domain had been banned.  its immediately after the following two lines:

                'Close recordset
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If Instr(1, objXMLHTTP.ResponseText, "yes", 1) > 0 Then

That will return true each time if the email address or username contains 'yes' right?
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Originally posted by Gullanian Gullanian wrote:

If Instr(1, objXMLHTTP.ResponseText, "yes", 1) > 0 Then

That will return true each time if the email address or username contains 'yes' right?
 
It will return true if the returned string of text from stopforumspam contains the text characters "yes" anywhere in it.  So if either the name, the email address, or the IP address is found in the stopforumspam DB, stopforumspam returns a yes value.
 
 
 
follow the links, then do a "view source" on the resulting page to see the XML that would be in objXMLHTTP.ResponseText
 
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I have also modified the administrator email for new registrants.  Here's what the resulting email that I get looks like:

from: XXXX Forum forum@mywebwizforumdomain.com
to: forum@mywebwizforumdomain.com

date: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:49 AM
subject: New Member Activation

Hi,

The following new member has registered on XXXX Forum.

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Username: - slloyd945
Email Address: - spammysboy@aol.fr
IP Logged: - 88.166.46.7
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To activate the new membership  slloyd945 click on the link below: -

http://www.mywebwizforumdomain.com/forum/admin_activate.asp?USD=1736

To view the domain info for the registrants IP address, click here:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall?ip=88.166.46.7

If you are absolutely certain that this registrant is a spammer, and the registrant did NOT show up in StopForumSpam's database, you can add him to the database; click here:
http://www.stopforumspam.com/add.php?username=slloyd945&email=spammysboy@aol.fr&IP=88.166.46.7&api_key=[mywebwizforumdomain_API_key]

To view details of the new registrant *before* approving, click here:
http://www.mywebwizforumdomain.com/forum/register.asp?FPN=0&PF=1736&M=A

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The RED text link is important because that is how you can ADD to stopforumspam's DB.  If you get someone who does not appear in the DB, and you are absolutely sure they are a spammer, you can submit them to the DB.  You have to get an API Key from stopforumspam (its just a gibberish text value, like a password) in order to submit.
 
My site is averaging 1-2 spammer blacklistings per day.  I got one this week which was obviously a spammer but was not in the DB, so I submitted him in hopes that it helps others blacklist him.
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Update - this seems to be working very well.  During the month of October, we had 35 forum signups which were blacklisted by stopforumspam, and 7 which were legitimate users.  Thus far, stop-forumspam seems not to have blacklisted anyone who was legitimate, but it has missed a few (small percentage, none this month) which were spammers.  The link to add to the stopforumspam database easily adds those as you find them.
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I have been chatting to Paul over at StopForumSpam who has agreed to allowing us to include support in the forum core code, so that you don't need to modify the code to have this functionality.

Expect to see this in the next release shortly.
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Well done Bruce. It really has helped me cutting on a lot of those "Chinese and Russian" spammers whom always register in the middle of night when we're all asleep ...even though I've also got a Moderator Hold on posts until they've posted over 10 ...
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Great news !!
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