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Old 05-05-2016, 01:47 PM   #6
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I assume that in order to reduce spam, you do not allow yahoo and gmail addresses. This has forced me to use a work address instead. I've changed jobs and I'm certain that my email is no longer valid. I'll change it now but it sure would be nice to be able to change it to my 15 year old yahoo account. As a reminder to those that have changed jobs and do the same as I do, you may want to update your information.
I don't block any email services. You are welcome to use a Yahoo or Gmail address.

To stop the spam registrations all new registrations are filtered through a database called StopForumSpam. It rejects ten's of thousands of spam registrations every month on this site. Then I do an IP lookup on the rest before approving them. I don't approve registrations made through proxy servers or from places like Russia or Eastern Europe. You can see by the absence of spam on this forum that my steps work pretty well.
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