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    10 years, 10 months ago

    ~Hi, great plugin… I thought this review brought up some valid points but there was no feedback to it from you… what are your thoughts on the issues raised;

    The only problem is that people can exploit the subscribe widget to send random subscriptions to people. There is no captcha on the widget, people can use the same IP address to register email addresses in succession, and emails are sent to unverified email addresses.

    Because of this my account got blacklisted by Verizon. I had to remove all the subscribe2 widgets and forms from all my sites before the server would reinstate my service. One of my domains was offline for three days because of this.

    All that being said, the other features are awesome. After I removed all the widgets, and no longer use this program for subscriptions, it sends emails as it says it will. Very nice!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/subscribe2/

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  • @myplugins,

    This criticism was, in my opinion, a little flawed. Subscribe2 uses a double opt in process so email addresses are submitted on the form and then have to be confirmed by clicking a link in an email.

    If a site is under attack from a bot then repeated submission of email addresses to Subscribe2 would be the least of your worries as they’d be hitting comment and login pages also.

    But, there are now simple anti spam measure included in the form and there is also a hook called ‘s2_lockout’ that can be used to limit repeated submissions from the same IP address.

    I would still advised using a plugin designed to stop bot attacks though – something like Bad Behaviour.
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/bad-behavior/

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