Thread: A record?

Just noticed on a 'rival' board:

The administrator has banned 'all of China'. That is approximately 1.2 billion people? Surely that is a record!

[the reason: a spam deluge.]

Impressive; guess it involves a bit of overtime work ...

It's not surprising ... the majority of spam originates from China and Russia, and some from the USA as well.

We have blocked certain IP ranges from time to time, but have not had the need (yet) to block an entire country.
We do have registered/active members on this forum and our sister forum (MIMF) from China, Russia and many other countries.

Seems for every 10 items of prevention we do to prevent spammers, they come up with 25 more ways ... always a challenge, and it keeps forum staff on their toes watching for it. So far, we have prevented at least 20k spammer registrations on this forum alone ... 58k on MIMF, since early last year.