• Resolved SickSquirrelTwo

    (@sicksquirreltwo)


    I added *@emptylousersstop.com to my Ban Hammer database. Today a spammer registered from email: [email protected] (I hid the username).

    Years ago (before I lost memory) I added * before the @ to my .htaccess file. I had the * in mind when I set my bans in WordPress. But your directions (I just reread) say “(i.e. @domain.com).”

    I thought it was right as I banned *@*.celebrities-duels.com and the daily registrations from that domain stopped cold.

    So, either something else is wrong or all my other spam registrants went away. Am I am setting it wrong, and if so, please show me the correct way to set the ban. Thank you.

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/ban-hammer/

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  • Plugin Author Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    What other plugins are you using?

    I just tested on a clean WP install with @emptylousersstop.com in my ban list. When I tried to register as [email protected] I got the right error.

    http://cl.ly/image/160n2x2K2A2Z

    Make sure each entry is on it’s own line.

    Thread Starter SickSquirrelTwo

    (@sicksquirreltwo)

    So you entered it differently than I did. I thought the * meant any ident but I guess maybe it’s built into the plugin? Or the method has changed in the past five years?

    Thanks,, will go change every entry

    Plugin Author Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    No, nothing’s changed 🙂 As the direction that you quoted says “(i.e. @domain.com).”

    So the banlist I would use based on what you gave is…

    @emptylousersstop.com
    .celebrities-duels.com
    @anotherevildomain.com
    @muahhahhah.com

    And so on. Each on their own line. Now since you said @*.celebrities-duels.com I took that down to just .celebrities-duels.com instead, which works. Mind you so would celebrities-duels, but that would catch anything with that word in the email (so [email protected] would be caught too).

    Thread Starter SickSquirrelTwo

    (@sicksquirreltwo)

    Thanks. I’ll edit the celeb* line as well. They spam daily with a new celeb name in there.

    Plugin Author Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    You may want to keep an eye on that. [email protected] would be caught by that too 😉

    Thread Starter SickSquirrelTwo

    (@sicksquirreltwo)

    So .celebrities-duel.com would catch any “celebr” in an email? Whoa. I’d think you’d need the full word as celebr* isn’t banned.

    I thought if I did *@domain.com the * refers only to username. Nut you’re saying to do @domain.com which catches ***domain***@.

    Is there a way to ban any username (*) with a specific domain and avoid the *domain*@domain.com ban?

    Plugin Author Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    No no no!

    If you put in celeb THAT will catch everything that has ‘celeb’ in the name.

    You’re over thinking all this 😀

    @emptylousersstop.com
    .celebrities-duels.com
    @anotherevildomain.com
    @muahhahhah.com

    First of all: No * needed.

    Secondly, that stops ANYTHING with a .celebrities-duels.com domain name. This includes the following:

    [email protected]
    [email protected]

    Does that make more sense?

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