New users and IP bans

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@Hannes

Could we have a definite statement how this IP blacklist works?

A bit of info was posted starting at You have been permanently banned from this board - #9 by Dannii

@Hannes

Is the user’s address matched against a previously downloaded blacklist or are all addresses sent to some third-party to be matched? I’d be very uncomfortable with the latter.

I also very much prefer the former method.

@Dannii

The RBL sites we check might temporarily store the requests (some I just checked said 7 days for example), but they’re only going to store the addresses of reported spammers for any longer than that.

Could you, please, link to the relevant Privacy Terms of the third-party/ies? Thanks.