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Originally Posted by webmaster
To stop the spam registrations all new registrations are filtered through a database called StopForumSpam. It rejects ten's of thousands of spam registrations every month on this site. Then I do an IP lookup on the rest before approving them. I don't approve registrations made through proxy servers or from places like Russia or Eastern Europe. You can see by the absence of spam on my forum that my steps work pretty well.
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For anyone interested here is a screenshot of the StopForumSpam log. The activity you see is just one 30 minute period and there was only one legitimate registration during that time. You can see in the red circle that there were over 17,000 registrations since I flushed it a week or so ago. Without the StopForumSpam database I don't know how this constant flood of registrations could be managed.