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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2006, 08:26:37 PM »
What's extra dumb about this is that "Charles Schwab" is listed as a guest...

Only members of the forum should be allowed to PM people.  I got these as PM's not emails.

That's annoying as all hell and I can't block him because he's not a member and you can't disable PMs here... The only option I can see is to delete the account....

I can't understand how non-members can PM.  No other forum I belong to allows that.
« Last Edit: August 25, 2006, 08:38:10 PM by triplet »

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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2006, 08:38:30 PM »
It's just spam...delete it and ignore it, apologies to any who got pics.
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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2006, 08:56:52 PM »
Hmmm... just saw Iago's post..
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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2006, 09:51:55 PM »
Quant, Iago's seen your suggestion and will keep it in mind if it gets bad (and if the code supports it).
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« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2006, 01:23:33 AM »
I just got spammed by someone named Charles Schwab with rather vulgar images and links which may have been of a pornographic nature.

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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #20 on: August 26, 2006, 11:05:45 AM »
That was some blasting rod...
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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2006, 06:59:39 PM »
What's extra dumb about this is that "Charles Schwab" is listed as a guest...
I think he had registered and since he's been kicked off, the messages now claim he's a guest...

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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2006, 09:01:09 PM »
Kudos to Iago for quick action - it's highly unfortunate that crap like this has to be shoved in front of us all, but in my years on this lists various incarnations I think this was only the second time any spammers had gotten through, and that's pretty darn good.
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Re: Spam Spam Spam
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2006, 04:01:04 AM »
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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2006, 01:08:10 PM »
Ugh, I just recieved two...
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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #25 on: September 01, 2006, 12:07:15 AM »
Yeah I got it. And I don't think anybody on this forum won't be a little insulted. I mean...I like guys and all, but that was just rude.

And it was strange because I noticed it wasn't sent out to me specifically but to Shannon. Anybody know how that could happen?

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Re: Spammers have hit the boards
« Reply #26 on: September 01, 2006, 11:01:23 PM »
yea i got that and it was VERY scary

STUPID SPAMMERS!
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