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I never said there weren't outliers, but I have found them to be quite rare since using this strategy. If I do have to ban someone like that I ban them by email
by weeksie 16y ago
I never said there weren't outliers, but I have found them to be quite rare since using this strategy. If I do have to ban someone like that I ban them by email address, since I require email confirmation to sign up. It slows them down at least. Also, I can ban by regex on an email address so they can't use the gmail trick of adding a + after their username.
I find it just as effective as an IP ban and less likely to affect others.
- zaphar 16y agoThis is somewhat offtopic but the plus is actually a defacto standard in most mailers. I believe but can't say for certain that sendmail was the first to ignore everything after the plus in the local-part of the address and most other mailers do the same.
- rimantas 16y agoYou can also put dots at arbitrary places in your gmail username i.e. jhonsmith@gmail com, jhonsmith@gmail com and jhon.s.m.i.t.h@gmail.com is the same email address.