[puttytat]

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Is it possible to find out a member's IP-address/es without them even having posted a message? We have this one new "member" who signed up and right away sent a very hurtful and racist email to one of our active and long-time members. Unfortunately I don't know any way of finding out the IP so i can ban it. Simply banning the email-address seems like not enough because that appears to be only a temporary one... So is there any way to find out the IP address of a user if he/she hasn't posted a message?

Thanks a lot for your help! Kim

[admin (no pm's please)]

Sorry no, but IP bans are ineffectual anyway. Few people have a really static IP.

[puttytat]

[interlog]

The IP address is recorded on registration. Just look at the member's details in the ACP and you find the IP address

[Zudane]

Interlog is correct, IP addresses are recorded at registration and upon post.  You can also get the IP (if you are admin) when the user is online by looking at the "who is online" list.

But as Admin said, IP bans are rather useless.  Most people get a new IP each time they connect to the internet (restarting a modem does this too).  You COULD ban an IP range, which would effectually work as long as the user does not use a proxy (which will get around just about any IP ban), but you would also be banning everybody that lives within an area around that user.

If they are sending bad e-mails, you could put a secondary group for users that are older members (new members being default in registered users) and simply remove e-mail privileges from registered members, and add the privileges to the secondary group.

Once phpbb3.0.6 is released, there will be a new group for new members (easy to set permissions and max post count for new members to leave the new members group).  Essentially it's a built-in moderation for new members.

[admin (no pm's please)]

It's funny really, that sort of feature is sensible and useful and dare I say it actually better than what we at myff have added to phpbb2 as it is more integrated to the way a forum functions. User types and groups are very good features that are under exploited in phpbb2 and which should have been a killer must have feature in phpbb3. But somehow it all got over complicated.

I think if I was writing things I might have had people being members of GOOD groups that add permissions, and BAD groups that deny permissions. I think such an approach would have been simpler for just about all uses and a lot easier to understand and visualize.