# Blocking recent wave of spam

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-recent-wave-of-spam/314867
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 3, 2024, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-recent-wave-of-spam/314867 "2024-07-03T10:43:09Z")
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-recent-wave-of-spam/314867/12 "2024-07-03T22:33:48Z")

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> [@SailReal](#):
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> If we would block
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> AS55836: Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited  
> AS9498: Bharti Airtel Ltd.  
> AS45609: Bharti Airtel Ltd.  
> AS24560: Bharti Airtel Ltd.
> 
> we would be fine

FYI my [Geo Blocking plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/geo-blocking-plugin/227824) can deny access to Discourse based on the source AS network. Indeed a lot of this kind of spam seems to originate from those networks, especially AS45609.

If you don’t want to block half of India then it might be worth investigating how hard it would be to reuse some of the functionality in that plugin to add network or IP based rules to the approval logic (“require approval for new posts from networks”)

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