Had Trouble Kicking This One Out

Alessandra · 2010-03-02 10:39 am

Got an attempted registry from

Sokanon
74.54.206.66
ram8894u+98552@gmail.com
hostname: 42.ce.364a.static.theplanet.com

On our SMF forum.

The Stopforumspam list changed its email to ram8894@gmail.com

When I tried to ban it, the SMF forum didn't recognize the longer email address as valid and wouldn't let me ban. So I changed the email to the one on SFS and banned that instead.

However, the admin info told me the account was still awaiting approval. Hmm. I tried banning it again, and they told me it was already banned. I slightly changed the ban name, banned it again, and found it still there awaiting approval. I tried to delete the account and it wouldn't go away. Yikes.

In the end I went to the admin memberlist and removed it there, and it finally went away (Phew!).

Any idea why this happened?

zaphod · 2010-03-02 10:58 am

Yes, everything after the + is ignored by gmail. So when you search, everything after the + is removed by us. The api will still match the name.

Please see: http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/t106 … rom-anyway

In other words, the longer e-mail address is invalid, and a lame attempt to cloak the real one.

This pretty much is a problem only with gmail.

Zap

Alessandra · 2010-03-03 1:12 pm

Sorry I wasn't clear. What I meant was, does anybody know why the heck I couldn't delete the registration? Normally they go away when I ban them.

zaphod · 2010-03-03 3:25 pm

I just noticed that...

ram8894u+98552@gmail.com = ram8894u@gmail.com

ram8894u@gmail.com != (does not equal) ram8894@gmail.com (as you had posted)

Looks like a new mail address.

Zap

Gaieus · 2010-03-06 7:18 pm

How about banning ram8894u*@gmail.com and anything that would be added afterwards (with or without a + ) as well as the "plain" version would be banned.

zaphod · 2010-03-06 11:13 pm

As stated before, see http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/t106 … rom-anyway ... it gives all the reasons.

Zap

Gaieus · 2010-03-07 12:19 am

Yeah, I remember that post - but now I actually meant the forum ban. * can be used as a wild card so anyone trying to register with any combination would be denied.

zaphod · 2010-03-07 4:12 am

Can't use wildcards here, as innocents would be caught.

And we surely can't accept them, as that could lead to database poisoning. Imagine if someone added *@gmail.com to the database here, the havoc that would cause.

Zap

Gaieus · 2010-03-07 9:18 am

No Zap, I think you are still misunderstanding me. I am taking about (manually) banning someone on my (or anyone's) forum. I have recently banned a registered member (still inactivated) with an email address runner2(at)forexstrategyvault(dot)com. Of course I banned him as *(at)forexstrategyvault(dot)com as the domain is apparently not a free email provider and I am very unlikely to welcome any further members from there.

I would certainly not submit the email address like that into the database but the original one only. Then every user can decide what to do with the correct data.

zaphod · 2010-03-07 2:08 pm

Oh okay. Sorry. I understand you now. Yes, you could use wildcards on your forum.

I thought you were referring to how the data should be stored in the database here.

Zap

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