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Last Update:	Dec. 5, 2007 (8 months ago)
Category:	Group/Guild Management
Tags:	group and spam
Project Manager:	Roil
Current Version:	Spam Basher 2.3.0 (for World of Warcraft 2.3.0)
Downloads Today:	1
Downloads Total:	1,627
Favorites:	3
Comments:	3

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Created On:	Dec. 5, 2007
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Authors

Roil

(Project Manager)

About Spam Basher

Spam Basher is a very small addon that declines gold spammer group invites.

It simply does one thing: Checks the level of the person/bot trying to invite you. If he is level 1, the invitation is declined.

Usage:

- To enable (its enabled from the beginning):

  /ace enable spambasher

- To disable

  /ace disable spambasher

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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nbaker555 said
Dec. 10, 2007, 07:34AM (8 months, 2 weeks ago)
yea i am thinking the same thing. but if there was a way to make a list of the invite spamers that spam you where it will log the IP address from the spamer that invites you that wold take care of the it for good....

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FimbulFambi said
Dec. 9, 2007, 05:25PM (8 months, 2 weeks ago)
I'm having the same problem, and I REALLY want this to work. I have a thought, but I know nothing about lua coding, so this suggestion may be totally wrong.

I spoke to a GM about the spam situation and asked about it. I was told that currently there was nothing that could be done because the majority of these spams come from demo accounts which do not show up in the /who list. I wonder if the problem is that the code is unable to determine if the query is coming from a level one because the account is unlisted? If so, perhaps the code could be changed so that it checks for two things. First, is the player listed in who (if not, decline the invite). Second, if the player is listed, is he/she level one (if so, decline the invite).

Just a thought

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lifetapt said
Dec. 7, 2007, 12:23AM (8 months, 2 weeks ago)
I would really like this addon to work, however for me it seems to only work occasionally. Sometimes I'd see the invite, the addon does the who query (I see the goldspammer's /who information appear in the chat pane) but it doesn't do anything. Some other times it works properly, I see the who information pop up and it correctly blocks the invite as a level 1 goldspammer.
I even took a look at the code, and even though I'm not a lua coder I understood what each line did... perform /who query, if level == 1 then hide the party invite window. Doesn't get much more straightforward then that, I don't know why it's not blocking some invites.

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Table of Contents

Installation Guide

Translations

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

Mac Support

Directory Structure