New Spam Filters - Email Whitelist (IF YOU CAN'T REGISTER, READ THIS!)
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 11:02 pm
Hello, everyone!
It's good to see most of our anti-spam stuff works to keep the spam hidden from everyone's screens, most of the time. I do come and check in every week or so and do cleanup but I figure there has to be a more proactive way of handling things, so I made a change.
Now, if you attempt to sign up with an email address that is not part of the whitelist - i.e, it's a junk tenminutemail email - your account will automatically be banned when you log in. I have whitelisted as many common email providers both US and international as I can think of - if you or a friend are trying to register with one that I've missed and hitting the wall, please send me an email at bearsharktopusdev@gmail.com asap to have your email provider added to the whitelist.
The reason I am doing this is because it is much harder to run spambot rings through legitimate email providers as opposed to junk mail providers. Trying to ban them reactively is like playing whackamole, I'd be handling an ever increasing blacklist of mostly gibberish, but a whitelist lets us restrict traffic to mostly legitimate traffic, making spamming significantly more difficult.
Cheers and hope you are all enjoying life. BTW me and AdmiralExclipse are married now. Love you all!
It's good to see most of our anti-spam stuff works to keep the spam hidden from everyone's screens, most of the time. I do come and check in every week or so and do cleanup but I figure there has to be a more proactive way of handling things, so I made a change.
Now, if you attempt to sign up with an email address that is not part of the whitelist - i.e, it's a junk tenminutemail email - your account will automatically be banned when you log in. I have whitelisted as many common email providers both US and international as I can think of - if you or a friend are trying to register with one that I've missed and hitting the wall, please send me an email at bearsharktopusdev@gmail.com asap to have your email provider added to the whitelist.
The reason I am doing this is because it is much harder to run spambot rings through legitimate email providers as opposed to junk mail providers. Trying to ban them reactively is like playing whackamole, I'd be handling an ever increasing blacklist of mostly gibberish, but a whitelist lets us restrict traffic to mostly legitimate traffic, making spamming significantly more difficult.Cheers and hope you are all enjoying life. BTW me and AdmiralExclipse are married now. Love you all!