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Attention Club Forum Site Admins

PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:18 pm
by Spiritof64
Hi Guys,

I was going through the user lists on http://www.ozcollins.com/pantherbb this morning and I picked up on something you might want to check out.
Every week on the same day for the last 4 weeks I have had a new member sign up that appears to be a web robot/spider of some description. The user name comprises random 6-8 characters and the email and web adddresses supplied are nonexistant but are all in the .info domains.
I have deleted the members and am looking for a way to block .info addresses from my userlist.

Site Admin

PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:27 pm
by redandblack
Thanks for that, SO64.

You may already know this, but under Ban Control in the Admin section, you can specify email names to ban, using * to cover any from that address: eg

*@abcdef.info

*@abcdef.com

etc, etc.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:48 pm
by westside
This is a problem for all phb bulletin boards - lots of dodgy scripts going around the net, including ones that register accounts and start spam threads. Annoying.