How do I ban multiple 'yahoo.com.xx' addresses

[Steve Machol]

I thought that by banning 'yahoo.com' email addresses that this would ban all email addresses with 'yahoo.com' in them. However this appears to not be the case. I just had someone successfully register and spam my forums using a 'yahoo.com.cn' address.

Is there a way to ban all yahoo addresses without having to enter each country code?

[jojo85]

Re: How do I ban multiple 'yahoo.com.xx' addresses

Originally posted by smachol
I thought that by banning 'yahoo.com' email addresses that this would ban all email addresses with 'yahoo.com' in them. However this appears to not be the case. I just had someone successfully register and spam my forums using a 'yahoo.com.cn' address.

Is there a way to ban all yahoo addresses without having to enter each country code?

Mouarf........i don't think than the vbulletin devellopers know that...

[tubedogg]

Re: How do I ban multiple 'yahoo.com.xx' addresses

Originally posted by smachol
Is there a way to ban all yahoo addresses without having to enter each country code?

No because technically yahoo.com and yahoo.com.cn are two different domains. If it was done the way you suggest, then banning mybusiness.com would also ban mybusiness.com.cn even if they are owned by two different companies in two different countries. The face that Yahoo! owns both of them in this case is a coincidence of sorts.

[Steve Machol]

So? That's exactly the way I want it to work. The censor filter allows us to ban certain character strings, whether they stand as a word or within a word. Why couldn't the email ban be modified to do the same thing?

[tubedogg]

If I want to ban mail.com, should mail.com.cn (which is not owned by the same people as mail.com) be penalized for this?

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by tubedogg
If I want to ban mail.com, should mail.com.cn (which is not owned by the same people as mail.com) be penalized for this?

Shouldn't that be my choice? My choice is to ban every email address with 'yahoo' in it.

As I said, the censor option gives us the choice of banning a word, or a character string within a word. I still don't understand why I shouldn't have the same option in banning email addresses.