screening email addresses

[natasha]

Hi,
I am having a problem with spammers joining my forum and posting spam emails. I stopped it my making every new member "activate" their account by first receiving an email and replying to it. I am still getting spammers signing up though. I have noticed that they are coming from 5 specific email address (i.e @mail.ru.com or @cashette.com etc). Is there a way that when someone tries to register with one of these emails that their registration is rejected automatically and won't be processed?

Thanks!

[Seg]

Yes, you can ban by email. (*@domain.tld)
I too have had the same problem, but I have been quick enough to ban them before they had a chance to post.

[jerm]

You can set it up so that an admin has to first activate their account before they can start posting

[#cM]

Hi

Setup "Member Approval" in your Admin options.

Admin >> Features & Options >> Method of registration employed for new members = Member Approval.

Using this method will give you, the admin, the ability to Activate new accounts or not

Cheers
#cM

[dtfjon]

I have been having a problem with spammers over the last month or so also.  I have switched the registration to member approval, but this does not screen for working email addresses.  Now the spammers are using fake emails. 

I have been banning IPs daily trying to keep them out.  Any suggestions?  Is there a way to lock out all IP's from certain parts of the world, like anything on the RIPE network?  I get between 2 and 10 spammers trying to register every day.  It is really frustrating.  I am tempted to just lock out everybody for a while to see if they go away.

[proaudiotech]

I have try to ban this address: *@mail.ru.com but smf will not let me.
I get the below error:
Invalid email address / email address range.
Example of a valid email address: [email protected].
Example of a valid email address range: *@*.badsite.com