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Zenfor
Junior Member

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Posted - 27 November 2008 :  20:02:27  Show Profile
I'm wasting my time by getting constant spam type registrations with mail.ru as the email and I want them automatically deleted without any error message as soon as they register. Without installing a whole mod, is there some few lines of code I could insert that would do something like that? Thanks!<

Carefree
Advanced Member

Philippines
4217 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  03:19:58  Show Profile
Something like this should do it:

In "register.asp", look for these lines (appx 637-640):
				strMessage = strMessage & "Happy Posting!"

After them, add the following:

				strRFE=right(Request.Form("email"),7)
				if strRFE = "mail.ru" then
					strSql = "DELETE FROM " & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS_PENDING "
					strSql = strSql & " WHERE strRFE="& "MAIL.RU"
					set rsRFE = my_Conn.Execute (strSql)
					rsRFE.close
					set rsRFE = nothing
				end if
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Zenfor
Junior Member

372 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  06:26:18  Show Profile
Thanks but I just tested it and it didn't work, the mail.ru still went into members pending. I even tried it in upper and lower case. Any other ideas?<
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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20595 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  07:04:58  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
personally I would do it like this.

in register.asp look for these lines

If strAutoLogon <> 1 then
			if Request.Form("Email") = "" then
				Err_Msg = Err_Msg & "<li>You Must give an e-mail address</li>"
			end if

Imediatly after add the following

		if (Instr(lcase(Request.Form("Email")), "@mail.ru") > 0)  then
				Err_Msg = "<li>Registration failed!</li>" & Err_Msg
		end if


this does not write anything to the db, it just fails the registration.
YOU MUST add something to the Err_Msg as this is how the forum determines whether registration failed or not.<
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator

Netherlands
2625 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  07:12:37  Show Profile  Visit MarcelG's Homepage
Zenfor, you say this:
quote:
I'm wasting my time by getting constant spam type registrations with mail.ru as the email and I want them automatically deleted without any error message as soon as they register.
How important is the bold part for you?
Of course, you could turn the 'error message' into something like "Registration succesful", while in reality it is not, but won't this give you more questions from genuine @mail.ru users ?
I just use the error message "The mail domain you're using is blacklisted.", which is very clear as to why the registration was blocked.<
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Zenfor
Junior Member

372 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  07:30:24  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by MarcelG
...How important is the bold part for you?
Of course, you could turn the 'error message' into something like "Registration successful", while in reality it is not, but won't this give you more questions from genuine @mail.ru users ?...

My forum is mainly used by local folks within a small USA town. I'm getting several mail.ru registrations each day which appear to be from the Nigerian scammers. Doing some research on mail.ru, it's a Russian mail service famous for use by spammers, scammers, etc.

I've never has a real mail.ru user and don't ever expect to and would rather not give them an error message that alerts them to what is happening.

Thanks!<
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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20595 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  08:12:19  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
just providing a registration failed message does not give them any indication as to why it failed so they will have no idea what is happening other than they failed to register<
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Zenfor
Junior Member

372 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  09:25:20  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by HuwR

just providing a registration failed message does not give them any indication as to why it failed so they will have no idea what is happening other than they failed to register

Makes sense, so how do I make your code work with a message? Thank you!<
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HuwR
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United Kingdom
20595 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  10:08:42  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
the code I posted has a fail message, as I explained it MUST have one in order to work<
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Zenfor
Junior Member

372 Posts
Posted - 28 November 2008 :  10:53:18  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by HuwR

the code I posted has a fail message, as I explained it MUST have one in order to work

Perfect, that worked like a charm, thank you!<
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