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Hi Matthew

I’ve also been getting odd email addresses. I have three questions:

1. In the post above you mentioned “anti spam measures”. I can’t seem to find them. Could you advise where they are? I only see under “Miscellaneous” a box called “Barred domains” which doesn’t help me. Most of the spam addresses I get are using hotmail.com and many legitimate users use hotmail too. It would be more useful to be able to copy and paste these fake signups into a similar box.

2. I did a test from a friend’s email address to subscribe. I actually do get this email:

“xxx has received a request to subscribe for this email address. To complete your request please click on the link below:”
Does the fact that the spam address was subscribed means that there is a real person who actually physically clicked the link, or are there spambots who can do this for spammers now?

3. Is there a possiblity to integrate something like Captcha with this plug in? I found something called the Anti-Spam plug-in by Cleantalk. Unfortunately that only applies to commenting, not the initial e-mail notification sign up itself.

Thanks a million, and Happy New Year!