Handling of Spam sign-ups

[Administrator]

The way the spam signups are handled is changing, there is no longer an IP ban in place. There are a small number still in place, they will be phased out shortly.

The ban is now either on the email address, or email domain used to sign-up.

This will facilitate access by forum users who are on a VPN, or in a geographic region where formerly the IP ranges were banned.

[oafpatroll]

Good news. The IP range ban was a PITA as I always forget to disconnect from VPN before browsing the forum.

[Administrator]

The IP ban list is now cleared.

[Administrator]

I've had to re-impliment IP ban list due to the large number of spam registrations from certain subnets.

For now, the banned subnets are specific to Russia. It's possible that if you use a VPN that is on a Russian subnet, forum access may be prevented.

[janfred]

I hope Singapore is still allowed.

[oafpatroll]

My bannings came when using Private Internet Access or AVG VPNs and were definitely not set to russian regions if they even have them as options.

 

[Administrator]

The subnets are Moscow specific.

[janfred]

I tried to acces via Doha airport wifi and promptly got perma-banned.

[Mohamed]

I tried to acces via Doha airport wifi and promptly got perma-banned.

Same happened with me. Had to use a different browser for a while.