Quote Originally Posted by Nokia
You can only see IP of the abuser if they made a post in your forum, that is how phpBB works.

I suggest you delete the user, also ban his email address

E-mail address: * [email protected]

To ban this email address, add

*@hotmail.net

hotmail.net is real email or fake ?

How use got activated with a fake email ?

You need to set user activation to User or Admin (so only email verified users can login to your forum and post.)
Thanks, Nokia! I had already banned this user and have now banned "hotmail.net" as it is a fake e-mail address. The actual hotmail e-mail address is "hotmail.com" and a lot of folks use it so I am hesitant to ban it.

I know that the only way I can see the IP of the user/applicant is if they are actually allowed to post but a lot of folks here don't seem to realize that. I did find a very helpful site that lists (fairly up to the minute) forum abusers, their IP#s and their e-mail addresses so I now try to refer to that when I get one of these spammers.

Now....please tell us how we can make back up files of all of our forum info in case we have a major problem. I would surely hate to lose everything! I have actually seen this happen to other forums!!

Again THANKS!!