I don't have time to do this right now, but diffs are welcome. -- David -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [boinc_projects] Ban mailinator.com emails? Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:46:52 +0200 From: Jorden van der Elst <[email protected]> To: David Anderson <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Hi David, Is there also some way to check for "same" email addresses? The last spammer that hit a lot of projects used one Gmail address, but with different 'spelling'. He could do this because Gmail doesn't care about dots in a name. So you could send me email to [email protected], but also to e.lst93, el.st93, e.l.s.t.93 etc. etc and it'll all come in on this one email address. BOINC does check for the dot, seeing it as a different email address and then makes a new account with it. Perhaps that for Gmail a rule could be set that checks if the email address is already in the database, be it with or without dots? On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:35 PM, David Anderson<[email protected]> wrote: > I added the following PHP feature (lightly tested): > > - web: allow projects to account email addresses in certain domains. > Add the following to html/project/project.inc: > > $banned_email_domains = array( > "foo.bar", > "blah" > ); > > Email addresses ending with any of those strings will be disallowed. > > -- David > > Eric J Korpela wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> Does boinc currently have a feature where you can prevent users from >> signing up with an email address from a certain domain? We're having >> a problem with some users using large numbers of mailinator.com email >> addresses to make a lot of accounts. Mailinator allows you to make an >> infinite number of no password required mailboxes. The process for >> making the mailbox is to use the email address or its encrypted >> alternate address. Anyone who knows the email address can check the >> mailbox. >> >> In order to prevent this, I'd like to prevent people from using >> mailinator.com, mailinator2.com, sogetthis.com, mailin8r.com, >> mailinator.net, spamherelots.com, or thisisnotmyrealemail.com. Can >> we add a bad_domains table that gets checked during account creation? >> >> Eric > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_projects mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_projects > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > -- -- Jord. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
