Recent Spam Blitz
Posted: November 27th, 2012, 1:04 pm
I received an email today that a forum member had received a Spam PM from this board. That heads-up caused me to visit here (I've been away) and discover that since November 11th, we had hundreds of new registrants and over 1,000 posts awaiting moderation. I just spent well over an hour deleting them all.
Given the sheer number of the new posts and registrations, I could not examine everything and just did a wholesale cleanup. Even that took hours.
In the process, I may have blown away some real posts by some new members and even the registrations of a few legitimate new members. If so, I sincerely apologise, and hope you understand and re-register if necessary and continue to post to this forum. Please PM me or drop me a line via the various links here.
Posts by our regulars, however, came through fine and I see there are some new posts on the board.
I don't know how many PM Spams went out, either, so please let me know if you got one, or several.
Given the sheer number of the new posts and registrations, I could not examine everything and just did a wholesale cleanup. Even that took hours.
In the process, I may have blown away some real posts by some new members and even the registrations of a few legitimate new members. If so, I sincerely apologise, and hope you understand and re-register if necessary and continue to post to this forum. Please PM me or drop me a line via the various links here.
Posts by our regulars, however, came through fine and I see there are some new posts on the board.
I don't know how many PM Spams went out, either, so please let me know if you got one, or several.