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gmail and other email addrsses

PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:26 am
by Bill_Thompson
What email addresses do you ban?
Gmail? Hotmail? Ru.com?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:15 am
by Lance
Yup. All the ones that mostly generate spam.

Edit:

Why?

Do you need a domain you can register a sock puppet from?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:01 pm
by GrapesOfWrath
Not a sock per se, but I was going to change to my current email address. I'll just make up a forwarding address.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:25 pm
by Lance
GrapesOfWrath wrote:Not a sock per se, but I was going to change to my current email address. I'll just make up a forwarding address.

If you PM me your new email address I can change it for you.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:34 pm
by GrapesOfWrath
It was a gmail account, but I just changed it to another email. Not a big deal, interesting though. So, you'd allow gmail accounts, but the autofilter throws them out.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:20 pm
by Lance
Yeah, but I can put them in manually.

Last time I unblocked gmail we had 20+ bogus spam registrations in the first hour. There are bots that roam the web doing nothing but registering fake accounts on boards.

MANY of them.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:03 pm
by GrapesOfWrath
What do you do about sincere posters (I know, an oxymoron)? I already have an account, but the message wasn't totally clear that that was the filter criteria--it just said the email address was not allowed.

PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:53 am
by Lance
Yeah, that's a problem.

Honestly, we don't get a lot of new membership and usually it's by referral. When it comes up we either create the new account manually or I disable the filters briefly. Which is how we got all the bogus registrations last time.

I should probably do something...