• Registered: 2011-03-15
  • Posts: 3

Topic: Maximum number of dots in an email addresses

Hi!

To prevent spam users to registers accounts, a nice function would to be able to set the maximum number of dots (.) allowed in an email address. The default value would be (I think) one (1) (but it should of course be possible to change this by admin).

Many of the typical spammers use email addresses like this:  cos.ens.ha.f.s.ha.k@gmail.com

To allow "real" users with more than the allowed number of dots there could be an exception list of approved email addresses that admin could register when needed.

What do you think?

  • From: Ukraine
  • Registered: 2008-10-31
  • Posts: 762

Re: Maximum number of dots in an email addresses

I add can this to my antispam extensions — Fancy_stop_spam.
But i`m not shure that is effective methods against spamers.