I sometimes have trouble registering on sites with my preferred email address, which ends in ".info". After all, it has only been around for 12 years. :)
Anyway, I tried a secondary address ending in .com and I was still rejected!
Finally a yahoo.com address worked. I rarely look at that account, but at least I could register.
Why so picky?
I'm not able to tell you exactly what it is, but:
This forum, among many others, utilize the databases from http://www.stopforumspam.com/ in order to validate that you aren't a spammer. Use the search function in order to check if you email addresses or usernames are listed.
Interesting, but I searched for both of the rejected addresses, and they are not on the database you mentioned.
Thanks for the idea.
Quote from: SDX on August 12, 2013, 11:18:27 PM
I'm not able to tell you exactly what it is, but:
Perhaps it is related to "cookies" not being enabled?
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This forum, among many others, utilize the databases from http://www.stopforumspam.com/ in order to validate that you aren't a spammer. Use the search function in order to check if you email addresses or usernames are listed.
Interesting. I took a look at that website, but I'm unclear how this works. Is it an automatic process, or does a ML moderator have to manually check if a new "person?" seeking membership is on the stopforumspam list?
The reason I ask: I am the admin at another SMF forum, and have been cursed with malicious spam at other website that I am webmaster:
www.CanPrint.org (more or less under construction ... want to open up to active use once I get it more secure from spam)
I rarely notice spam on ML, so I infer that ML has some SMF security mods installed, or very effective and hard working moderators.