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Title: Blocking Gmail
Post by: kennydee on September 26, 2009, 01:46:10 AM
I get alot of spam accounts from gmail, so I decided I want to block any accounts with gmail. How do I do this?
Title: Re: Blocking Gmail
Post by: Antechinus on September 26, 2009, 02:14:52 AM
Set it as a ban trigger in admin. Use *@gmail.com
Title: Re: Blocking Gmail
Post by: Chasingu on September 26, 2009, 02:13:02 PM
The downside to that approach is that if someone legit registers with one, they cant.
Title: Re: Blocking Gmail
Post by: Antechinus on September 26, 2009, 04:41:57 PM
Yes, but I am assuming Kennydee is aware of that and willing to make that trade-off.
Title: Re: Blocking Gmail
Post by: NaYa on September 27, 2009, 12:14:10 PM
stopping registrations using Gmail ??

better think about IP.
Title: Re: Blocking Gmail
Post by: kennydee on September 28, 2009, 11:44:55 PM
What about building an additional sercurity feature. There are many websites out there that report spam IP ADDRESS, what if someone was able to use and cross-refrence from one of those sites that would be a security feature add into SMF.
Title: Re: Blocking Gmail
Post by: TheListener on September 28, 2009, 11:50:06 PM
If a site was to ban gmail addresses then I would refuse to use it.

Out of three email addresses the gmail one is the most used.
Title: Re: Blocking Gmail
Post by: Arantor on September 29, 2009, 03:48:08 AM
Quote from: kennydee on September 28, 2009, 11:44:55 PM
What about building an additional sercurity feature. There are many websites out there that report spam IP ADDRESS, what if someone was able to use and cross-refrence from one of those sites that would be a security feature add into SMF.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1849
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1519
Personal favourite: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1547