Recommend we wait until the new captcha to purge the bans and spambots.
Reason? If we delete them, they will register again.
If we don't, they cannot use the same IP, username or e-mail to register.
IP address conflicts are the exception rather than the norm, and we have contact information available to non-members, and (worse comes to worse) they could use a friend's, neighbors, or public connection to register, after which point, an IP block would have no effect unless we manually enforce it.
Also, I need to set the banlist to compare e-mails by stripping periods, first.
We have a number of spambots, registering as:
sdfgh.dfs.jghd.k.fs.gj@gmail.com, sd.f.ghd.f.s.jg.hdk.fsgj@gmail.com, s.df.g.hd.fsj.g.hd.kf.sgj@gmail.com
and so on and so forth. Gmail doesn't pay attention to periods in e-mails.
Meanwhile, I would tell it to ignore anything after a + sign.
I wouldn't ban all e-mails with periods and plus signs, as some of us have alternate inboxes and other Gmail-specific features using those, and I'd rather be more specific with prohibitions on spambot emails.
Reason? If we delete them, they will register again.
If we don't, they cannot use the same IP, username or e-mail to register.
IP address conflicts are the exception rather than the norm, and we have contact information available to non-members, and (worse comes to worse) they could use a friend's, neighbors, or public connection to register, after which point, an IP block would have no effect unless we manually enforce it.
Also, I need to set the banlist to compare e-mails by stripping periods, first.
We have a number of spambots, registering as:
sdfgh.dfs.jghd.k.fs.gj@gmail.com, sd.f.ghd.f.s.jg.hdk.fsgj@gmail.com, s.df.g.hd.fsj.g.hd.kf.sgj@gmail.com
and so on and so forth. Gmail doesn't pay attention to periods in e-mails.
Meanwhile, I would tell it to ignore anything after a + sign.
I wouldn't ban all e-mails with periods and plus signs, as some of us have alternate inboxes and other Gmail-specific features using those, and I'd rather be more specific with prohibitions on spambot emails.