Disallow Yahoo and Hotmail ID's from Registration

Serafim · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 6:49 pm

WelL I would love to not deal with Google or Yahoo. My site is private and I wish to keep it that way. The reason I do not want freemail accounts is because they cannot really be traced. I have never refused anyone from joining I just prefer to know that if they do something stupid I can go to their service provider with a real account. I have 10 hotmail and yahoo account none of them bare any real information about myself. That is the only reason I want to exclude gmail hotmail and yahoo. No offense manunkind but If I pay for my site I have the right to exclude whomever I wish.

manunkind · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 6:51 pm

Serafim wrote:

No offense manunkind but If I pay for my site I have the right to exclude whomever I wish.

None taken. I was just curious what the logic was, that's all. Smile

Serafim · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 7:16 pm

Its kewl I wasn't being nasty I understood what you meant just explaining from my view

Susann · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 7:57 pm

You can probably reduce a lot of spam because 90 % e-mail spam is in English. I ´ve never received spam e-mails written in French, Dutch, Turkish or Polish. However, if I had a private site I would also exclude accounts from yahoo, gmail etc. but it isn´t easy to handle if you have an international website with members from several countries.
I use exclusively a German freemail account to register that´s normal.

SpaceMonkey · Worker Joined: Apr 30, 2005 Posts: 170

I've just had to ban the following e-mail addresses because all they've ever contributed is SPAM.. Some weird Mexican spam bots or something..

@noparara.com
@mespacha.com
@lipster.net
@wisral.com
@zeppele.com

Susann · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:48 am

src21.net - IP 80.93.57.74 - inetnum: 80.93.56.0 - 80.93.59.255- PeterHost.Ru Hosting Provider - and some others are from Russia.
Search for src21.net then you ´ll find several of his spam subdomains also.

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Guardian2003 · Site Admin Joined: Aug 28, 2003 Posts: 4658

Two words 'spam prevention'.
By blocking free mail accounts they are forced to use their ISP email address which can be more easily traced.
Further more, when you make a complaint of abuse to a free mail provider, they may block the account but the user can very quickly and easily create another free account with the same provider or even a different provider.

If you complain to an ISP that one of their accounts is being used for spam, they take a much harsher which might even result in the user losing his net access.

I you have never been plagued with spam forum posts then I can see why you might be apprehensive.
If people really want to register on your site, then they will use their ISP mail account - unless they have something to hide!

SpaceMonkey · Worker Joined: Apr 30, 2005 Posts: 170

Yeah, I might ban the rest of them as they attempt the exploit... I might turn my comments back on now.. Or do you think that's a bad idea.. Comments for articles is what I mean..

manunkind · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:29 am

Mine stopped. I turned comments back on and am back to normal now.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4687

One great reason is to block comment or forum spam. We recently had an incident where someone using 5 different email domains registered 100 users in 2 days - each one posted a comment spam on news stories. By blocking those five domains, we could prevent that, or at least make it more difficult for the user.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4687

This has been added to the code for the next release of RN (I know...better late than never!)