Add BlockedEmail, to block signups based on email. Track stats of how many times each email address is blocked, and last time it was blocked. Move email validation out of User model and into EmailValidator. Signup form remembers which email addresses have failed and shows validation error on email field.

spec/components/validators/email_validator_spec.rb

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+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe EmailValidator do
+
+  let(:record) { Fabricate.build(:user, email: "bad@spamclub.com") }
+  let(:validator) { described_class.new({attributes: :email}) }
+  subject(:validate) { validator.validate_each(record,:email,record.email) }
+
+  context "blocked email" do
+    it "doesn't add an error when email doesn't match a blocked email" do
+      BlockedEmail.stubs(:should_block?).with(record.email).returns(false)
+      validate
+      record.errors[:email].should_not be_present
+    end
+
+    it "adds an error when email matches a blocked email" do
+      BlockedEmail.stubs(:should_block?).with(record.email).returns(true)
+      validate
+      record.errors[:email].should be_present
+    end
+  end
+
+end