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Andrew
9th February 2008, 06:17 PM
You will have a PM waiting for you.

It would be nice if they actually put up a few posts first.

Grunt
9th February 2008, 06:19 PM
None here yet Andrew.

goughy
9th February 2008, 06:20 PM
Who's it from??

Andrew
9th February 2008, 06:20 PM
Maybe he just thinks I need a golf book more than you.

Andrew
9th February 2008, 06:21 PM
Who's it from??

Golfmasterspecialist

Grunt
9th February 2008, 06:21 PM
i would be guessing it is GolfingMasterSpeciallist

jaybam
9th February 2008, 06:21 PM
nothing here yet either? What are we looking for?

goughy
9th February 2008, 06:22 PM
Golfmasterspecialist

Can you forward me the pm. I need to see it before doing anything about him!

AndyP
9th February 2008, 06:26 PM
Who's Online says they are still PMing. Who's next? When will it stop? Exciting stuff.

goughy
9th February 2008, 06:29 PM
I know. I wanna send them a special pm myself, but wanna read their pm first.

That's a lot of effort thought, since you can only pm 5 members at a time!

markTHEblake
9th February 2008, 06:30 PM
reply to him constantly, the popups will piss him off

goughy
9th February 2008, 06:46 PM
Has anyone else got the pm yet? If so, could they forward it on to me! I then want to contact the admin at every other golf forum and send them his email address, user name and ip address for banning purposes!!

AndyP
9th February 2008, 06:59 PM
reply to him constantly, the popups will piss him offYou still have that turned on?

BTW they are still going.

3oneday
9th February 2008, 07:00 PM
Has anyone else got the pm yet? If so, could they forward it on to me! I then want to contact the admin at every other golf forum and send them his email address, user name and ip address for banning purposes!!give me a sec and I will forward it.

Moe Norman
9th February 2008, 07:06 PM
Andrew,

Did you get A-Lo to write the thread title for you?

goughy
9th February 2008, 07:07 PM
Rob checked, and he'd sent like 40 or 50 pm's since joining, so I banned him and deleted all the pm's he'd sent! Anyone who wants to contact the admin of any other golf forums your on about him let me know. I'll send you his email address and the ip he was logged on at!

pm spam my forum will he!!

markTHEblake
9th February 2008, 07:13 PM
You still have that turned on?.

yeah- if i didnt i wouldnt ever notice all the PM's i get.

Andrew
9th February 2008, 07:16 PM
Andrew,

Did you get A-Lo to write the thread title for you?

I was going to title it:

Are You Being Spammed

But I didn't know how to write 'gay'.

AndyP
9th February 2008, 07:53 PM
It must be a spam robot, because even though I deleted the user, there is still a Guest with the same IP address attempting to PM members.

3oneday
11th February 2008, 08:26 AM
Jeannette is the newest spammer, welcome. And no, not that interested in Buddism thanks :roll:

Lambolica
11th February 2008, 08:29 AM
I'll second that ^^^

goughy
11th February 2008, 08:45 AM
Banned them and deleted their pm's sent. Andy will probably delete them and ban their ip address later. I don't know how to do this.

They seem to be getting in again. Especially the pm spammers. I'd be thinking they are some sort of bot, but I didn't think bot's could get past our joining protocols? Maybe they join themselves then send the bot in later?

AndyP
11th February 2008, 09:05 AM
If it continues, I'll have to put in some extra protection measures.

We haven't ever really been heavily hit by spam, so we've been lucky. We have had plenty of bogus members join, but then not be able to post or get through the rego confirmation phase.

shazza_rs
11th February 2008, 11:05 AM
Maybe the ad in Inside Social Golf wasn't such a good idea afterall.....

AndyP
11th February 2008, 11:13 AM
I don't think the article made any difference spam-wise, the spammers are generally from overseas, not local. There has been plenty of new member signups recently too.