[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by Robert

About 200 members received that same message and another 1000 members would have received it had I not banned him. He had some kind of script running that sent a PM out about every minute to everyone in the member list. PM spam is becoming an increasingly popular trend with spammers, and is automatically generated by robots in many cases. I considered this to be one of those cases. I've asked non_existence to contact me to have the ban lifted, in case I am wrong.

In further news, all the recent bannings are due to a surge in spam registration by robots. Again, these are not real humans, but is an automated program, in many cases, that has managed to get past the captcha security system. I can easily detect when this happens and will immediately ban the member, but sometimes they get a post submitted. Recently these posts have been pornographic in nature so I have added another step in the registration process that will prevent these automated spam registrations, at least for a while.

This is all part of an ongoing battle, behind the scenes, between good and evil, i.e. between forum admins and spammers. I try to keep this backstage so you guys can carry on in our quest, but realize it is ugly out there in the land of Spam.

Regards,
--Robert

Thanks for keeping this forum free from the junkers of trashville.

regards michael.