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Old 12-16-10, 03:14 PM   #9
seiseki
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Originally Posted by frau kaleun View Post
It's unfortunate, but as noted in the thread already started on this topic, every time those email providers are temporarily unblocked the forums get inundated with spambots.

They do not, to my knowledge, get inundated with legitimate new members using yahoo/hotmail/gmail email addies. So for Subsim overall, there does seem to be more value in blocking them than allowing them.
Surely there must be other ways to stop spam other than blocking email providers, captcha is working for other forums, why not this forum?

This is just going to piss of a lot of legit users.
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