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Hello bonelifer,
I asked at the SFS (Registered Members Only) forum: Yes, BotScout used SFS data in a not allowed way. But they did it only for a short period. And then they stopped it till today. It's more than one year ago.

Bye Martin

Hello bonelifer,

bonelifer wrote:They do have free accounts but none the less they also have "coporate/commercial" accounts.

What's the problem here?

Do you have a source for your statement about the stolen data thing?

Bye Martin

Hello bonelifer,
I'm using BotScout for free.

Bye Martin

Hello, in this point there are three types of HTTP blacklists: free, no registration and key required for checking, but registration and key required for reporting new spam - e.g. Stop Forum Spam free, but registration and key required for checking, too - e.g. Project Honey Pot non-free, but they ar...

Hello /a, the questions are: Is Akismet a serious service? Do there ToS allow the re-use of the user data? If users are trusting in a board founder or webmaster why they should not trust in a blacklist provider, too? One other point: You can check the messages with Akismet and not only ip, username ...

Hello imkingdavid,
thanks for the clarification!
BTW: It has not been a persoanl attack. Now I know that file content is not cached in Olympus.
Bye Martin

Hello, I can remember that the APboard (or tForum? ) have been doing it this way (about 9 years ago - in 2003 I moved to phpBB). Database or files? Files! Cache? Are you sure that language files are cached the way you told here (in Olympus). When I'm programming and testing my MODs and I'm uploading...

Hello Nils,
I will send you a german language PM next time. I think here it's too much off-topic to talk about these things.

Bye Martin

Hello Nils,
I'm a MOD author and no co-developer. I don't advertise MODs. I advertise missing core features.
Perhaps MODs should been written like patches in future?

Bye Martin

Hello Jonah, the new Advanced Block MOD 1.1.0 for Olympus offers the features you are requesting. It offers plug-in systems for HTTP blacklists (at the moment included: Stop Forum Spam, BotScout, Akismet, Project Honey Pot), IP-RBL DNS blacklists and Domain-RBL DNS blacklists. The weight system is r...