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If the list has 10'000 domains (atm 1'700) and certain domains like ezinearticles (accounting for 1% of spam URLs) are blocked, it should get expensive and time intensive for the spammers, lowering their margins. That in turn makes the business model less attractive.

As always, it's not a golden bullet, but a further option.

PS: Which captchas do you use they can't get around?

I thought maybe there's a way to add an admin page, or include on features page like the online_plus extension (improved online list) that the admin can define urls tld's and where they  should link to...

So 2 fields:
1. URL pattern to watch for (if URL = http://tinyurl.com/)
2. URL to send to (url http://tinyurl.com/xxx = http://preview.tinyurl.com/)

Maybe add the top 10 redirect sites like that. If someone is using a redirect site the forum admin doesn't like he could use another section in admin with 2 fields also:

1. URL to block use of  (Enter URL a)
2. We suggest you use (Enter URL b)  instead of URL a
the admin could enter URL b he trusts to do better job of policing...

Yes you're right, seems whatever table he's storing the urls in is a bit messed up....

or maybe with something like this:

###########################
#below is another code example I found#
###########################

RE: BANNING TOR NETWORK EXIT NODES

Not bad blacksuns' method, but i like doing things my way
Here we go:

[code=php]
#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?php
//there are several servers monitoring tor network status,
//uncomment the one you find more appealing
//$curl = curl_init('http://torstatus.kgprog.com/ip_list_exit.php/Tor_ip_list_EXIT.csv');
//$curl = curl_init('https://torstatus.all.de/ip_list_exit.php/Tor_ip_list_EXIT.csv');
//$curl = curl_init('http://torstatus.amorphis.eu/ip_list_exit.php/Tor_ip_list_EXIT.csv');
//$curl = curl_init('http://torstatus.cyberphunk.org/ip_list_exit.php/Tor_ip_list_EXIT.csv');
//$curl = curl_init('http://tns.hermetix.org/ip_list_exit.php/Tor_ip_list_EXIT.csv');
$curl = curl_init('http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ip_list_exit.php/Tor_ip_list_EXIT.csv');
$fp = fopen('/tmp/tor_nodes', 'w');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
fclose($fp);

$db = mysql_connect('host', 'user', 'pass');//replace with your values
mysql_select_db('verlihub', $db);
mysql_query('TRUNCATE TABLE tor_nodes');//faster than DELETE FROM...
$row = 1;
$file = fopen('/tmp/tor_nodes', 'r');
while (($data = fgetcsv($file, 16, '\n')) !== FALSE)
{
    $num = count($data);
    $row++;
    for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++)
   {
        //echo $data[$c] . "<br />";//if you need some testing
        mysql_query("INSERT INTO tor_nodes(node_ip) VALUES('$data[$c]')", $db);
    }
}
fclose($file);
mysql_close($db);
?>
[/code]

Next, we need a table, something like the folowing will do:

CREATE TABLE tor_nodes (node_ip varchar(16) NOT NULL);

No indexes, no fluff, only one column. If you find MyISAM too slow, convert to MEMORY (HEAP), the amount of data is very small, and the speed excellent. Now put the script into a cronjob(hence the shebang), running it hourly won't kill anyone.
So, we have everything up to date, a lua script is all we need, fortunately our friend Shagrath® shared one, to serve as starting point (thank you). Here we go:

foo = 1
function VH_OnUserLogin(nick)
      local res, OpChat = VH:GetConfig("config", "opchat_name")
      local res, userIP = VH:GetUserIP(nick)
      local res, host = VH:GetUserHost(nick)
      local query = "SELECT node_ip FROM tor_nodes WHERE node_ip = '"..userIP.."'"
      res, match = VH:SQLQuery(query)
      if match >= foo then
        VH:SendDataToUser("<BOFH> This hub doesn't accept connections from tor exit nodes. Bye.|",nick) --let him know what happened
         VH:SendPMToAll("Tor user detected, disconnecting... :)\nnick:\t"..nick.."\nIp:\t"..userIP.."\nHost:\t"..host.."\t Neeext!|", OpChat, 3, 10)
         VH:CloseConnection(nick)
      end
   return true
end

That's it, now run your benchmarks

**Edit: added VH:SendDataToUser, let the tor/proxy rider know what is going on.

source: http://forums.verlihub-project.org/view … amp;t=4691

Can you post the exact full post in code tags here
or email it to me  see my avatar....

and the IPs they've been using?

Edit: found some of their urls and keywords:

[url=http://www.overstocksilver.com/sterling-silver-rings.html]Silver Rings[/url]
[url=http://www.overstocksilver.com/[/url]]Sterling Silver Necklaces[/url]
[url=http://www.overstocksilver.com/diamondczrings.html]CZ Rings[/url]
[url=http://www.overstocksilver.com/tiinstsidicz.html]tiffany key pendant[/url]

* added

Now we just need our ace Grez to make this code take out those users posting those links... not just warning

Tested and working my end! Love it! Thanks!!!

Edit: Just wondering now how to transition that extension into a board like this one.
Is it something that board users should be

• informed about before, but set as default

• only activated for users who have agreed (like with rules)

Any opinions?

The good news; it's now putting links to @user, however bad news, it's not sending any email. unless I missed the setting to turn that on?

Intention I have:
Block the url being posted AND show to admin (as it doesn't ban the user)

Some bots immediately tried the backslashes.

So what would have to be changed to get the result:
1. Warning as is now
+ if you publish this URL your account will be blocked.
2. If user tries to publish even then:
You  tried to publish a URL on the spam list, you're account is temporarily blocked. A moderator will contact you shortly, ( for example)

Edit: Example - I've had the same spammer come and post 3-8 posts, all with the same 8 links. If that code in URL Checker blocked the user as soon as he confirmed he's wants to send those links, dozens of users would not get an email with his spam links. Very important in my eyes.

Are you using v. 1.1.0  or 1.0.2  of the spoiler ext?

Yes and yes (1.3.4 / 1.0.9)

But more important
MySQL Improved 5.1.42
PHP: 5.2.12

Which MySQL are you using?