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Do you ban all .info domains?
01-24-2007, 08:25 PM
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Title: Just keeping it real
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,856 Location: Kent, WA     
| Do you ban all .info domains? The more and more I think about it most of the people that have been signing up and also spamming my forum are from .info domains. So I have been debating to just banning .info domains all together. What are your thoughts?  | ||||
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01-24-2007, 08:36 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,034 Location: Michigan, US Recent Blog: Action figures and comics in SW:TOR?s future?
| I guess I never really thought about it... I don't currently, and I won't unless I experience some problems from spammers from those domains.
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01-24-2007, 09:02 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 700 Location: www.NewOniTunes.com 
| I actually have a dot info domain that is not spammy. Though it is not my primary site should I want to register using my email from that domain and someone banned me for it I think I would be pretty turned off.
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01-24-2007, 09:03 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,518 | I've never really had a problem with, ".info" domains. If I ever do have a problem in the future, then I may or may not permanently ban them, depending on the situation. If I got only a few spammers, then I would just ban them individually. If I got a continuous, non-stop wave of spammers using that domain extension, then yes, I would consider permanently banning the extension. Chris | ||||
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01-24-2007, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 920 Location: Alberta Canada
| .info domains are killing me, I might just consider such a move | ||||
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01-25-2007, 11:23 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,980 Location: back in TX 
| This is a tricky subject. If you have a truly niche subject, such as demolition, then most of your users should have regular email addresses.
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01-25-2007, 06:03 PM
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Title: Just keeping it real
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,856 Location: Kent, WA
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01-26-2007, 10:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | I've never really thought about it...sure, we receive spam from .info tld's...but we also receive a lot of spam from other tld's Out of curiousity, I decided to search the AF memberbase for .info and 27 results came back. 6 of these 27 have at least 1 post, and one of them is actually a fairly new, active member - Coffee Break. Judging by those results, I definitely wouldn't ban .info emails from registering.
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01-27-2007, 03:40 PM
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| Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 186 | I think it would be a bit presumptuous. Is banning based on a tld much different than banning Americans based on the fact the most spammers come from the USA(Not a statistic, just an example)? I think it would be unfair for the honest .info holders to be punished for the acts of the dishonest ones. | ||||
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