Spam flood

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: Spam flood

Hi all,

Our lovely forum is currently being "attacked" by spammers wishing to post irrelevant (possibly offensive) messages.

Darren, Rick (one of our mods) and I are taking action to prevent this....so apologies if you have been offended by any of their cr*p....

Normal service will be resumed shortly.

regards

Tim

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:16 am Post subject:

Hi all,

UPDATE: 10:15 am 2nd Oct - we're back online !!

Apologies but due to the spam flood from someone (or something) that was setting up so many new accounts on the forum, I took the forum offline at midnight last night so as to prevent further false registrations taking place.

Likewise, all NEW accounts will only be activated by an admin - this was because whoever was creating these dodgy accounts, was activating them and then posting spam.

So, now each and every new account will require admins to activate them...so if accounts continue to be registered, they will not be able to post anything on the forum until the account has been examined to confirm it's legitimacy....

Apologies to anyone joining up now - if you have a legitimate email addy, then your account will be activated within 24 hours of your application.

If you are a spammer....tough !!

regards and apologies for any inconvenience

Tim