@ura - there are some (not very difficult) php calls to detect those spoofers.. unless.. yr spammers r mucho smarter (&they're arnd!) in hi-techz than the *average (80% of elgg ppl here!) programmer.

@ben - yr ip# caint connect @fbfk b/c u were banned & blocked for violating the site's tos and annoying and harassing little girls at fbfk ;) so - do you really wanna discuss all that external stuff in here ??

this is better than Friday Night Fights on HBO, gotta love free entertainment

@Dhrup I definitely wasn't banned from FKKids :) and I can't reach your site from Hungary. 403 forbidden. You might need to revisit your .htaccess rules.

oopppsss && LOLZ ;-P NOT YOU Andras hehhh - I posted mssg abt that kid..!

ps: this is hilarious.. BUT IF ANYONE is reading - Andras is not the 'banned kid' from fkkids who's also here @Elgg. Andras most likely could not get himself banned from any site even if he tried ! b/c he is a very different kinda guy ;-) I do apologize for anything i *might have said that even vaguely implied that abt Andras.. (re: Hungary's 403 - I wonder.. why I blocked ? We had a serious serious spammer *hacker *once from somewhere in the western Europe areas.. some years back, maybe. Andras in quite welcome to join lolz if he wants - i'll do a allow for his IP until I figure out why Hungary ;-) With the situation re: some kinds spammers or hackers - I have found it safer to block out whole countries which have very little traffic anyways.

@Dhrup LOL no need to apologize, just wanted to let you know that apparently Hungary is also in your list of banned countries. No worries :)

steve aquila, how did you get stopforumspam to work? i have 1.8.8 and it doesn't seem to work :/ and also how did you get to match a person's IP address to match google's region API map thing.

@Cim: Steve doesn't do thattaway match so much as -> the *degree of mismatch indicates the likelihood of spammers trying to register and so your chances are better at detect/block. +++ do you not read around much @here these days  ? SFS :> '... Releases Author Recommended: 1.8.2 (11 hours ago)... '

@Andras: no 100% worries ;) tho for abt 10 secs I thot I'd posted wrongly loosely phrased wordings somewhere..;-O and sometimes triage'd defense works the best in the shorter run.

thank you dhrup, you are my hero lol