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Gunness
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#1
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by Gunness » Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:15 pm
We seem to have been hit by a wave of spammers. They mainly seem to operate by sending private messages.
Whenever I delete one of those users, I also delete their private messages.
So if you receive a mail notification saying:
"New Private Message has arrived", and there's nothing in your inbox, it's because the user has been deleted.
I'll try to solve the problem a.s.a.p.
Alastair
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#2
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by Alastair » Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:15 am
As a short term measure is it possible to prevent anyone who registers after 14th January 2010 (*) from sending Private Messages?
(*) This is the day after "frouvne" registered.
Gunness
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#3
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by Gunness » Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:06 am
Not really, no. Either everybody can send pm's or nobody can.
There might be a plugin module which will alter this, I'll have to investigate.
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#4
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by Gunness » Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:13 am
For the time being , I have disabled private messages. I know it's inconvenient, but the alternative is worse.