# "Questionable" account checks at the time of signup?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [8월 19, 2014, 10:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068 "2014-08-19T22:09:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [9월 29, 2014, 10:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questionable-account-checks-at-the-time-of-signup/19068/9 "2014-09-29T22:04:51Z")

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Don’t list PBL hits.. that’s meaningless. It just means the IP is a “home” computer and shouldn’t be running a mail server or sending mail. But posting a message on Discourse is not sending an email, that’s just using a web browser, which a home IP address can definitely be doing.

[http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL1546707](http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL1546707)

> This IP address range has been identified by Spamhaus as not meeting our policy for IP addresses permitted to deliver unauthenticated ‘direct-to-mx’ email to PBL users.

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