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Should new users have to have their accounts confirmed by an admin?

Yes! Anything to stop the Spam!
7 (78%)
Yes, but another solution needs to be found ASAP!
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No, but perhaps something similar would be viable?
1 (11%)
No, that's just a bad idea.
1 (11%)
 
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Christopher
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ANTI SPAM SOLUTIONS?

20 Jun 2007, 17:47

Evening all from Sweden!

I noticed a good amount of spam lately here and as a
temporary solution new users would not be able to
'auto-create' an account but rather have to have their
accounts confirmed by an admin... viable?
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Nick
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02 Jul 2007, 10:14

Nah, thats too much load on us, have to change question i think.
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Christopher
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02 Jul 2007, 11:08

Yeah, had a feeling it might be. Just a thought to get the ball rolling.
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Nick
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25 Jul 2007, 08:35

Cleaned up once again, human question mod somehow disapeared, sorry bout amount of spam recently. If someome legit was killed, my apologies.
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Nick
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30 Jul 2007, 05:44

Uff, reinstalled forum and everything from scratch, should be ok now, sorry if someone been accidently killed in the process.
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VaIt
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05 Aug 2007, 22:26

I would suggest this feature for imagevuex e.g. member registers for the album (password protected) and the admin has to approve the account.
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Nick
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16 Aug 2007, 15:05

Not sure its that beneficial really, afterall if i approve bot it will come back after receiving email from me. Because there is email activation enabled right now, so they obviously can receive mail and extract link from it.
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vietknight
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19 Aug 2007, 03:12

Doesn't this forum have the ability to ban by IP?
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bcbennycan
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Use Greylist and spamassain

27 Jan 2009, 19:58

I use this for many of my personal client servers ( Debian Etch )
IE Harleydavidsonpg.bc.ca

Here some stats from my main web server at home I host about 25 sites on

clanstewart:/home/tech# greylist stats
Statistics since Tue Jan 2 20:11:49 2007 (755 days and 22 hours ago)
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4243 items, matching 19770 requests, are currently whitelisted
0 items, matching 0 requests, are currently blacklisted
25 items, matching 30 requests, are currently greylisted

Of 136525 items that were initially greylisted:
- 33664 ( 24.7%) became whitelisted
- 102861 ( 75.3%) expired from the greylist
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