Great Plugin!

  • I love this Plugin very much. It’s great! E.g. the cache feature is a great enhancement! Together with the default Akismet plugin I have not any problems with spam user registrations now. But I have comments allowed only for registered users.

    Several years ago I wrote the Advanced Block MOD für phpBB 3.0. It’s a little bit similar to this Plugin.

    Two ideas for this Plugin:
    Please integrate Akismet support into your Plugin directly. So it would be possible to use your great log for Akismet, too.
    Please be carefully with the spamhaus.org DNS IP-RBL. In past I have had some false positives with this blacklist (on phpBB boards). It’s possible to prevent spam with DNS IP-RBLs without any false positives. But it needs carefully integration. DNS requests are faster than http requests. But the four webservices which you have integrated are doing a great job. So IMO there is not need for the integration of DNS IP-RBLs.

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  • I put the dnsbl checks last because they often have problems and the other checks do a better job.

    I think I will change the defaults on these to “off” so that users who need it can turn it on, but others won’t be plagued by a false positive.

    I used to integrate Akismet directly in the plugin, but they changed their API and I had trouble getting it to work. The API change was not announced anywhere that I saw and it broke the plugin for a week. Since Akismet is everywhere, I just put anyone that Akismet finds int he bad cache. I think Akismet should extend their plugin to cover new registrations. It is so obvious that I wonder why the don’t.

    The current version of Stop Spammers is modular and I did this so that it would be easy to adapt it for systems like Drupal, phpBB and Magento. I may do this some day when the system has settled down.

    Keith

    Thread Starter MartinTruckenbrodt

    (@martintruckenbrodt)

    Hi Keith,
    I closed with programming modifications for phpBB two years ago. But I will think aboutit then phpBB 3.0 Olympus will be nearly end-of-life.

    Bye Martin

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