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You have been banned message
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:12 am
by glenthompson
Sorry of you received one of these messages. I get a number of registrations requests from foreign spammers and have been banning the IP address ranges where they originate. Yesterday I tried to consolidate some of those in order to manage it easier and apparently got a little too aggressive, targeting some of our valid users.
I've reset the list so everyone should be good to go.
Re: You have been banned message
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:14 am
by DSPDA3
Thanks Glen.
Re: You have been banned message
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:53 am
by Chiketkd
Thanks Glen!
Nice not to be banned anymore!
Re: You have been banned message
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 10:48 am
by glenthompson
If anyone that got banned messages could let me know their IP address, it would help in the future. You can get it with the following link:
http://www.displayip.net/
Re: You have been banned message
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:05 pm
by glenthompson
A little research found the problem - some US IP addresses were missing from the database I used.
Decided to take a different approach and add an additional profile question that should help prevent spammers from registering. They've never been able to post since we require a moderator to approve new registrations but the dozens of e-mail notices each day can get old.