I have searched the forums and the comments pages using the title of this post, exscuse me if I missed something.

Is there any way to set quotas for users? Or better still for groups?

This is one feature I have not found, in what I think is the best album module I have used so far.

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This would be really usefull M0nty, particularly if fields can be required.

You do great work Guy!

I'm also no expert but first thing that occurs is that if all files have been cmod'ed 777 surely the server has already been exploited?

Therefore what point is there to capturing further info in this way?

Doesnt this suggest it's an inside job?

Needless to say I'm checking my sites permisions NOW!

OK! doddle!

just put in preferences/user info settings

hotmail|yahoo|spambob ...... etc.

found this >here<

Cant believe it is so simple. Don't do what I at first did due to fatique which was enter "hotmail" because this will clear ALL disallowed address's in that field!! arghhh!

Not really a problem though because all previous banned addys were webmail.

Thanks byronbussey so this is relatively simple but would prefer to do this in preferences if possible.

Is it possible with a regular expression? (regex)

I have been searching sites such as regex library (and of course Xoops) but so far no luck.

Well the porno link posting actually increased after my mail to the abuse contact so I banned their entire IP allocation.

So far so good fingers Xed

php stats in a module and a demo, thats SO Cool McNaz!

Also got my Google Analytics account this week and have to say it is awesome, with just 48 hours of data it is telling me many things I did not (but wanted to) know. I really wanted this back when it was Urchin, now Google are developing it, it is awesome and free.

Non tech solution

What I do is to run two groups, registered and qualified

Put people in the qualified group after five posts and at that point they are unmodified.

I used to moderate their posts and comments but as time went by found it was possible just to mod. comments.

The (active) membership is not huge so it's no hardship to change someones account when they draw attention by contributing although no doubt this could be hacked.

As the site is TG support I used to have a LOT of trouble with trolls registering just to see the (imagined) goodies inside. So site is also set up so new members see no more of the forums etc. when logged in than they can see logged out.

In particular they can't get at users profiles till they "qualify" which I assume is what they mostly want.

Under this system they seem to just get bored and drift off, we cull the inactive accounts periodically.

This approach evolved over our first year and came out of thinking through why the buggers were doing it, the details would vary with type of site I guess but basically you need to de motivate them if you can, bore them.

I searched this thread out because the latest game is someone from a Ukranean ISP posting porno links in the news comments system (not logged in so not a prob really as all such comments are modded, so all he is doing is giving us a nice list of IPs). Mainly I was more curious to learn more about how XOOPS handles (block/range) IP banning.

I mailed their abuse contact and they never answered plus the mystery visitor still drops by once a week to post, lol. So as I know I have no members from their network I was tempted to ban them totally for a bit just to let em know I can.

Ok, found the "workaround?" for this.

Modules > Extended profiles > Users > List > Add > Edit

Select active and save changes.

Phew!

I have a problem with this in 2.2.2 which I recently installed on a development server.

Find users "only inactive users" gets me the list and I can then send them mail, eg. activation key.

However one member made a mistake in their email address and clicking the link to their profile gets the message "no user selected" whether or not the check box is selected.

So I find myself unable to manually activate or edit the account?

Anyone else have this issue?