Spammers' IPs - Time to Fight Back

"I mean, why bother registering on a forum if you never intend to use the account?"
There are lurkers out there who don't want to post, but want to read and learn.

You can read the forums without registering.

I tried this. When I tried to drag them back into outlook express, the eml files went into a New

Message. Any advice, anyone?

Thanks for replying Coop.

I've just sign up here..still new..so I'll try to listen what kind of topic here..

Only kidding. Ive obviously spent too much time with Squiffy, Rich, and * today. As soon as Squiffs finds the FAQs and learns how to moderate a ***rd...

We’ve just lauched [URL="http://reverseinternet.com/"]reverse Google Analytics ID lookup[/URL] service that allows you to find websites by the same owner based on Google affiliate IDs that they use. You can also do lookups based on IP address and nameservers

Some of the IP addresses here (and in other spam) don't look like proxies, but actual assigned IPs. If we block those ranges, some real visitors might not be able to access the forums.

So, presumably you have the updater installed?

Have you tried disabling the use of Internet Guide? This is covered in their documentation and in various posts here - Im happy to point you to the relevant information if you cant find it but please dont make multiple, identical, posts.

A very good post and certainly these are points really useful.

There is not one single silver bullet solution that will fix the spam problem on its own, it's the combination of road blocks you put up that make it too time consuming (i.e. not profitable) for the spammer(s) to continue, I know this from experience because I'm a security consultant, I get paid to fix problems like this and believe me this is a minor one here that would take very little time to correct. The only reason I posted is because I have used this site in the past to gather information about the spammers and hackers I battle every day and I just wanted to return the favor.