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some clever person out there found a hole in the forum software and used us to send a bunch of spam.
and we get up to 20 new signups in a day from spammers and hackers in what I'm guessing is Russia. The painful part is I have to sort thru these to pick out and approve the few real new members by hand. its pretty time consuming and honestly I'm tired of dealing with it.
Last night Ted was kind enough to update the forum software and do some security checking. We dont really know how they were able to abuse our forum system but at least we are on the best version of software thats available.
What this leads me is to simply block certain countries from accessing our server. If they are blocked they will have a way to ask to be let in. I'll wait a couple of weeks before we implement this. I know it sounds problematic but I'm optimistic it will help without causing trouble
So.... if you are using the form from a country other than USA and UK, please respond here with your country and we wont include you in the block..
Best to you, bob.
and we get up to 20 new signups in a day from spammers and hackers in what I'm guessing is Russia. The painful part is I have to sort thru these to pick out and approve the few real new members by hand. its pretty time consuming and honestly I'm tired of dealing with it.
Last night Ted was kind enough to update the forum software and do some security checking. We dont really know how they were able to abuse our forum system but at least we are on the best version of software thats available.
What this leads me is to simply block certain countries from accessing our server. If they are blocked they will have a way to ask to be let in. I'll wait a couple of weeks before we implement this. I know it sounds problematic but I'm optimistic it will help without causing trouble
So.... if you are using the form from a country other than USA and UK, please respond here with your country and we wont include you in the block..
Best to you, bob.
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