well i've noticed they are using the free vpn gateways... but those IP blocks vary..

ive bypassed ip bans on occasion before. got banned from chimpout ( i troll that racist site. funny as hell) i gopt "accepted" by them, then a day later told them " btw, im black" ( im not but hey i was having fun. ) anyhoo, was ip banned, but not acct banned. was able to bypass the ban, and troll again. consider this ( what ive done before) a level of ban. 1 a warning, 2 a suspension 3 an acct ban ( temp or perm.) 4 if bypassed a permanent acct& ip ban. this works and most trolls or spambots move on. gstwin is a rare site. ive not seen too many spam attacks. Want to see spam warfare, check gopednation.com dear GOD daily its funny and pathetioc @ times

I have eaten fried spam. Actually enjoyed it, in small amounts. Do't think I could eat a whole can of the stuff though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

Blocking by hand via htaccess sucks butt, do you have a way that you can use a blacklist that you subscribe to but is maintained by someone else, sure they might have false positives but they are usually cleaned up in a day or so. What kind of access do you have to the server? Is it just a complete virtual host that you can add software to and admin at will?
BTW I had to block a Japan Class C just today, punks brought down all port 80 traffic by slamming my 10 year old PIX, thank god I have a new ASA on order that is a bit smarter. Ya it sucks being an admin for a .gov site, but I can still be a BOFH!!!   

  .... lost me after "by hand" ... sounds impressive though! 

Interesting - at gs500.net, we see spammers try to get in from China, Russia and Kansas. The Kansas IP is hosted by Microsoft!
Obviously, MS doesn't give a damn about SPAM! if they did, they'd block the spammers from their servers.

PM me that IP so I can block it.

Yeah your spam block included me but I'm back now

JOhn, the indiscriminate IP blocks are stopping a few legitimate people from getting on, Tim Holt, is one who got hit, he is in Australia.. 49.176.1.132 was his last IP.


We might want to see other options, I think the best is to try and see if we can tag to stopforumspam API call.

this might work: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1547

try this?

www.stopforumspam.com

Another one
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/httpbl_api.php

I unblocked the IP range.  What pisses me off is all of the IP by country (to stop forum spam) label the IP as China.  Piss me off.

Well I got note from another aussie / NZ member that he is blocked..


we'll have to rethink this one rather than just plain blocking, lets just do more of the spam checking / project honeypot thing.


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Quote from: mister on April 10, 2013, 05:02:48 PM

Quote from: Banzai on April 10, 2013, 05:00:23 PM
I admin a car forum and don't allow any Chinese or Russian IPs on. I also found the biggest group of spammers/zombies/whatever used gmail accounts.

Recently I added a question and answer challenge to the sign-up process. That has completely killed all the spam sign-ups.

The spammers used to use Hotmail accounts.

My main online email is my gmail account. I can access my email from anywhere, via any IP, and from my phone. Randomly automatically blocking all gmail accounts isn't a solution - but - a challenge in the signup process helps stop the autobots for sure.

I use hotmail and have been blocked from making accounts, its pretty damn annoying to be blocked by an email even if spammers are the cause of it.

block all China and Ukraine IPs and thank me later. I wont say anything on Russia, but never seen anyone from Russia on any forum I been to, but that's just me.

Disregard, just noticed there was a conflict with blocking China IP's.

Easy there - I have a hair trigger when you block IP's from Seattle!

And you blocked mine as well


Error 403 FORBIDDEN



You may be blocked OR are looking for a page in error.

IP addresses from China, Russian Federation and Ukraine are blocked from using this site due to heavy spam issues.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

You requested this address: /gsboard/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;f=inbox;pmsg=200350;quote;u=11426

You were refered from: (none)

Your IP addres is: 121.xxx.xxx.xxx

Your browser is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/3.0 Chrome/18.0.966.0 Safari/535.12

Server is: gstwins.com

Redirect status code is: 403

Quote from: adidasguy on April 21, 2013, 12:14:43 AM
Easy there - I have a hair trigger when you block IP's from Seattle!

i think john has a cat allergy.