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Well, I let this run for a few days, and I'm still getting spammer registrations from the countries supposedly blocked. My server guys told me that this really wouldn't help much because IPV4 IP addresses change hands quite often, even between countries. So although the list gets refreshed every time csf is restarted, it will likely block IPs from countries I really don't want blocked, and will allow spammers with IPs even recognized as being from the blocked countries.
So this seemed like a real good idea to try, but unfortunately it just doesn't appear to work as well as I had hoped it would. I don't believe that the number of spammers I have to block at registration really changed any. And, of course, any using a VPN could easily sidestep this anyway.
And it might have just been my imagination, but it seemed that every now and again that my own accessing my sites would sometimes just hang up with a delay in allowing me onto the sites or make a post.
So all things considered, I disabled this function.
It was worth a shot, however.
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