As I stated in a different post, I'm thinking about a board for a local school. One of the things I worried about is abuse from outside sources.
I had an idea. You can tell the pros and cons, if it can even be implemented.
Instead of 'banning' IPs, is there a way to allow only certain IPs in a range. I was thinking about finding out all of the IP ranges for my area and only allowing them. This way, someone in a different state or country couldn't access the board and cause trouble.
Is this even feasible? Your thoughts.
Or conversely, only allow sign-ups with email addresses that point to locally available ISP's. i.e. only allow signups with email with rr.com, home.net, aol.com, earthlink.net, etc. I understand most of these are national ISP, but this would prevent really odd-ball ISP's that are not available in our area--and most importantly free, throw-away email addresses that abusers use.
I know this kind of backwards from banning, but I really want to limit who can have access to these kids on my site.
Thanks!
I had an idea. You can tell the pros and cons, if it can even be implemented.
Instead of 'banning' IPs, is there a way to allow only certain IPs in a range. I was thinking about finding out all of the IP ranges for my area and only allowing them. This way, someone in a different state or country couldn't access the board and cause trouble.
Is this even feasible? Your thoughts.
Or conversely, only allow sign-ups with email addresses that point to locally available ISP's. i.e. only allow signups with email with rr.com, home.net, aol.com, earthlink.net, etc. I understand most of these are national ISP, but this would prevent really odd-ball ISP's that are not available in our area--and most importantly free, throw-away email addresses that abusers use.
I know this kind of backwards from banning, but I really want to limit who can have access to these kids on my site.
Thanks!
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