Hi!  I expect good things from here

I have used the resources of this site quite a bit lately as another tool to identify bots that manage to get past my filters,register and never post anything....as opposed to lurkers which I don't mind.....
Thanks

carolyn,

carolyn wrote:

Thank you for the great IPs list. It has significantly cut down the spam (and spam registrators) on my bulletin board. I update my IP "banned" list daily from your site.  Occasionally, some spammer posts a message on my board, but mostly always they only register. Why do they do this? What is their purpose.... is it just to show they can do so?

My impression is that most spam campaigns are two fold, that begins with a registration phase and then the payload delivery, when the messages are actually posted. Either that, or the bots are made to register simply to get listed in userlists that include links to their target website, in order to gain a PR boost. Or, something has gone wrong and the bot never receives its instruction to post.

carolyn wrote:

I use YaBB for my board, so I do not think I can add APIs, or I would like to contribute to your list.

Many thanks,
  Carolyn

The add form allows you to add spammers to the list regardless of what forum software you use. I hope one day to write some plugins for the more popular software packages that will help automate the process.

I really love this project, it's been very helpful in my daily combat against spambots. I first stumbled across this site when googling the suspicious e-mail addresses to identify them as bots or not. I've since become dependent upon your resources and even started contributing to the database. Thanks for doing such good work!

Hi!

I never used to get spammers, until recently.
It looks like your database will be a useful thing. Thanks!

This site ROCKS!! It is going to make my life much easier! I also found it by googling the email of one of my spam accounts. Good job here, guys!

I am very greatful for finding this site. I don't know what url brought me here, but so glad to have this as a resource. I am a super moderator on a couple music forums and have been quite successful in identifying suspected forum spammers, and subsequently banning those spammers before they had a chance to even complete their forum registrations ... lol!  Very cool for a moderator - very uncool for the spammer - but I believe that with concerted efforts like this one, we will be able to keep those spamming fools at an arm's distance sooner.

Thanks for your efforts.
Our forum has been getting hit the past few days with the E mail address of amnevsepoh.info   I must be getting about 10 registration applications a day from this address.  I try to enter the address in the banned e mail area but for whatever reason it does not seem to enter.  Even though I get the updated message. 

I must tell you that I am not computer savy.  Our website was designed by professionals and made semi idiot proof.  We do have a forum and I have been sort of relegated to keeping it up to snuff. 
Any suggestions on how to stop these bogus registrations ?

I have been simply deleting them without activating their registrations.  But its getting to be a pain in the you know what.

Thanks again.

Akron Cigar Club.

Glad to see this site.  I'm in the process of setting up a site with forum and even though it's still a work in progress I'm getting spammers. At first it was a game trying to catch them and get their information to block, but soon became an annoyance.

Thanks so much for your info!  I'm a new website host trying to make inexpensive sites for some non-profits in my area.  I thought that having a forum for a Clean and Sober living support group would be helpful, but we got spammed with TONS of porn and now all kinds of other junk!  Do I have a prayer of running a clean forum that will let the public post to it?  I suppose using a Capthcha image is the minimum of security I should be using, but I had hoped to make it easy for people to contact us with items to donate.  Which post should I go to to find the basics on how to block using your domains lists?
I'd appreciate any tips!  Susan

Thanks for the great resource! I was having some trouble distinguishing between spammer IPs and regular users, so when I search for a suspect IP and see that they've been reported by a few other people, I know I can safely ban the IP. I'll be adding IPs to the database as I catch them.

And a big thank you for the nice lists. I wandered in here on a search for info on a couple of IPs I got from my site's log after noting an unusual number of hits.

I have a forum, and maintain a couple of others, but haven't had much trouble with forum spam since I use SMF and keep it updated. It's not very big, either, not so tempting. When I had an older version installed on the side just to demo some skins, it got spammed. I've seen a few go down when they weren't upgraded, it's sad.

Today's alarm was different. Some kind of file hotlinking, I think -- but the IPs are on the spam list. Anyway, it started a couple of days ago but it's stopped now, I edited my .htaccess.

I notice there is some alarm about the AVG toolbar. I share the feeling that it is not really a good thing. It slows down the browser as well. I think that fast connections are causing an overall degradation of Internet quality ("Bloat Is Better") and encouraging horrible bandwidth waste. But it only hurts those who can't fight it.

Ehh...'scuze my rambling.