I assume the ongoing problems that forum administrators have with people randomly signing up to forums - even closed ones requiring admin approval for all accounts - for the purpose of spamming their web urls around the place is an old one. I run such a forum and have started implementing /16 level bans to try to slow them down. Obviously not the best solution. The forum in question is phpBB (I know - whos isn't) and i'm yet to have time to actually start digging into whether there are better ways of responding to this issue. (Volume isnt prohibitive - yet.) In the most recent case the IP address space that the website concerned points back to is in the Ukraine and the listed abuse contact is on a domain which is canned due to invalid contact details provided. My question then is - what happens now? The IP address space is essentially 'untraceable' except perhaps through bandwidth-supplier-agreements or somesuch. Shouldn't IP's with similarly invalid contact details be 'suspended' after being given opportunity to provide updated, correct details? The IP range in question is 195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255 and a snippet of the whois info provided is as follows: remarks: **************************************** remarks: * Abuse contacts: abuse@netcathost.com * remarks: **************************************** person: Vsevolod Stetsinsky address: 01110, Ukraine, Kiev, 20Á, Solomenskaya street. room 206. phone: +38 050 6226676 e-mail: vs@netcathost.com nic-hdl: VS1142-RIPE source: RIPE # Filtered Forgive the relative noobishness of the question, but I've not had to deal with this sort of situation before. Should I be forwarding to RIPE?