 Please do NOT click on links in PM from unknown usernames, Spam PM's reported |
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 Jan 18 2010, 12:21 AM
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 Freakin' Out  Group: Admin Posts: 330 Joined: 28-May 05 From: New Jersey Member No.: 47 Gender: Male Age: 50  |
Someone has been able to send out mass spam PM's without being approved as a member. Reported names are LadyAdministrator and LadyRoot . I'm working on fixing this problem.
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Jan 18 2010, 06:50 PM
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 Life is one anxiety attack after another... Group: Admin Posts: 8,676 Joined: 9-May 06 Member No.: 143 Gender: Male Age: 46 Mood: Piglet-level stressed Nation: Crazy Canuk |
We can set it up that "validating" members can't PM anyone. I wish we could just limit them to PM'ing Admins, but that doesn't seem possible. To be safe, for now I'm turning off all validating member PMs for now...
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Jan 20 2010, 03:12 AM
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Freakin' Out Group: Admin Posts: 330 Joined: 28-May 05 From: New Jersey Member No.: 47 Gender: Male Age: 50 |
Thanks, Randy. I was looking for that option, but couldn't figure it out.
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Jan 20 2010, 07:15 PM
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 Newbie Group: Nuthouse Member Posts: 3 Joined: 17-November 06 Member No.: 176 Gender: Female Age: 29 Nation: ankh-morpork |
similar issues going down at librivox and a couple other places. they chose to send out noreply emails about it as well, as many members will receive a 'new pm' message and click through the login that way -- *before* they have a chance to read a notice such as this on the board.
peace --------------------  "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." -Red Smith |
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Jan 21 2010, 06:04 PM
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Life is one anxiety attack after another... Group: Admin Posts: 8,676 Joined: 9-May 06 Member No.: 143 Gender: Male Age: 46 Mood: Piglet-level stressed Nation: Crazy Canuk |
Excellent suggestion....thanks for letting us know.
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Jan 22 2010, 12:12 AM
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Freakin' Out Group: Admin Posts: 330 Joined: 28-May 05 From: New Jersey Member No.: 47 Gender: Male Age: 50 |
Thanks for that, incon.
I had taken the extreme measure of deleting all messages sent by the spammers from the database, so it's a non-issue. |
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Jan 26 2010, 01:34 AM
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 A Flower Group: Nuthouse Member Posts: 4,067 Joined: 24-August 08 From: USA Member No.: 349 Gender: Female Age: old Mood: Exhausted Horoscope: Taurus Nation: USA |
I know on at least one version of the program that you could allow new people to contact admins only - it was probably something you had to switch on. Anyway, I bet all this problem had something to do with why my password wasn't working because I know I was using the correct password.
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