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Spammers

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:15 pm
by Gunness
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.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:15 am
by Alastair
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.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:06 am
by Gunness
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.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:13 am
by Gunness
For the time being, I have disabled private messages. I know it's inconvenient, but the alternative is worse.