Re: [Haifux] Reporting forum spammers per IP

2013-09-21 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: ** Hi all, I'm running a little phpBB forum, which is being bomarded by attempts to submit spam posts. I've solved the core problem already (i.e. preventing the spamming itself and the flood of new users) down to

Re: [Haifux] Reporting forum spammers per IP

2013-09-21 Thread Maxim Kovgan
I'd second Orna's approach, with a refinement: - IP range ban should be temporarily - only select eu/us/ca ISPs' abuse teams should be contacted. Also, worth mentioning: I've just snooped around for python IP ownership lookups (via RIRs DBs) and found no 1 tool for this. It is strange,