I bought my IPB licence way back at the beginning, it was called Life but its since changed, I get the upgrades but not the extras such as the spam service and fancy skin editor.

My question is, just how effective is the spam service compared to other services such as SFS and how much will it cost me to upgrade my old licence ?
I'm currently getting lots of spam registrations per day and its getting to be a pain going through them manually, I assume the IPB spam service automates their removal ?

thanks in advance :smile:

There's a mod for sfs and honestly it's not much different.

The spam service in the latest version of Board does have an option that you can set, so that if a spammer is flagged during registration by the spam service, it won't let the account be created. That does make "cleanup" must less work.

Between the Spam Service and the Q&A Challenge Question feature, I have had.... well, less than a dozen spammers get through this entire year.

I'm getting over 100 spam registrations per day so I think I might upgrade my licence so I can get the spam service

thanks for your help

It's good and a great idea, but I think it could really do with a boost... Can't believe some of them that get let through...

Log in name: NKtXEDYQbg
Display name: NKtXEDYQbg
Email: windland10862@yahoo.com
IP Address: 46.119.113.116
Date: 19 December 2013 - 12:16 PM

Log in name: pansyfq11
Display name: pansyfq11
Email: roseannaz3@pop3.mx.twitpost.info
IP Address: 37.218.245.74

Log in name: Seequejer
Display name: Seequejer
Email: gifsbreeptgit@pillsshop.info
IP Address: 178.137.85.93
Date: 10 December 2013 - 05:48 AM

Log in name: Seequejer
Display name: Seequejer
Email: gifsbreeptgit@pillsshop.info
IP Address: 5.248.83.27
Date: 26 November 2013 - 04:04 PM

Our spam service includes the stop forum spam data in it's calculations, however it also adds so much more into the mix..

If you would like to upgrade your perp or life license, please submit a ticket and we can take care of that also provide you with an extra perk as well.

Thank you

I run both the spam monitoring service and the free sfs hook. I have the sfs hook configured so that if the IP or email address is listed even once then the registration is declined. I get virtually no spammers at a busy forum. No need for the Q&A although I do use Keycaptcha instead of the regular recaptcha.

Those IP's listed above would have been caught by the sfs hook.

I run both the spam monitoring service and the free sfs hook. I have the sfs hook configured so that if the IP or email address is listed even once then the registration is declined. I get virtually no spammers at a busy forum. No need for the Q&A although I do use Keycaptcha instead of the regular recaptcha.

Those IP's listed above would have been caught by the sfs hook.

You do realize any site that uses SFS integration can submit any user "once" at least, which means if you block anyone listed even once you are potentially blocking many valid registrations? All it would take for me to be blocked would be to upset a single forum admin somewhere, and have them submit me as a "spammer" in retaliation.

From a personal standpoint, I feel like there should be a balance between blocking spammers and blocking real users. Only you can decide what that balance should be, however, on your own site.

All it would take for me to be blocked would be to upset a single forum admin somewhere, and have them submit me as a "spammer" in retaliation.

On the rare occasion that this occurs they can use my contact form to get in touch with me. I'll then work with them to get them off the sfs list / or I'll create an account for them if I think they are genuine.

Dears,

I really see too many "INVALID_KEY" entries in spam service error log. Generally it works well, but as this error occurs too often, daily I get few normal users f***d off unfairly and it brings daily workload as they all write emails to admin mailbox like "why I'm inactive?", which I don't want to get, friendly speaking :smile:

How to debug this "INVALID_KEY" error?

And one more question: in client area - where I can check expiration date of my license? So far I only found Purchased: 21 Apr 2012. But for sure I did renewal few times already... and the point is that I don't remember when I have renewed last time and for which period. So, how I should know expiration date?

I would recommend submitting a ticket for those items - unfortunately, that's not something we can address here on the forums. :)

Just pruned error logs few minutes ago and you may see how frequently new errors occur :sad:


Ok, sorry, I will submit as a ticket.

Is it okay that I have no packages to select when choosing "General support" in ticket submit form? O_o I think that's actually concerning my question on license expiration... strange.

Select Customer Service instead - we would need to look into your license problem first, which likely relates to the Spam Service problem. :)

Sorry... I found, that my license has just expired :smile: ha-ha