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Many of you (a few hundred) may have recently received a 419 scam PM. For obvious reasons you should not reply*; I've deleted the PMs and the user.

This kind of thing is hard to stop; the account was set up by a real person and they made sure not to spam me, at least. It was only thanks to a user telling me about it (goldsac) that I was able to take some action. So thanks for that. Also, well done on being user number 1337 :)

* unless you're a scambaiter

Annoying internet :(

There's probably a simple MOD to install or create to limit number of PM, perhaps based on date of registration or number of number. ?

Yes, but I'm avoiding new MODs until I have time to migrate to phpBB3.

We have quite a lot of PMs from users who have never posted, so we can't block those. Limiting to 5 or 10 PMs per day ought to be plenty, but requires DB modifications.

I was wondering what happened to the migration, once again if you need a hand only happy to help.

djbass wrote

I was wondering what happened to the migration

12 hour work days :(

lol.. happens to all of us, sigh.. if not the need to earn bread & butter I'd have so much more done :P

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Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	[Forums] PM spam Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:19 pm
	Many of you (a few hundred) may have recently received a 419 scam PM. For obvious reasons you should not reply; I've deleted the PMs and the user. This kind of thing is hard to stop; the account was set up by a real person and they made sure not to spam me, at least. It was only thanks to a user telling me about it (goldsac) that I was able to take some action. So thanks for that. Also, well done on being user number 1337 :) unless you're a scambaiter

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8651 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:53 pm
	Annoying internet :( There's probably a simple MOD to install or create to limit number of PM, perhaps based on date of registration or number of number. ?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:30 pm
	Yes, but I'm avoiding new MODs until I have time to migrate to phpBB3. We have quite a lot of PMs from users who have never posted, so we can't block those. Limiting to 5 or 10 PMs per day ought to be plenty, but requires DB modifications.

thatawesomeguy Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 731 Location: Melbourne, Australia	Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 1:41 am
	I was wondering what happened to the migration, once again if you need a hand only happy to help.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:18 am
	djbass wrote I was wondering what happened to the migration 12 hour work days :(

thatawesomeguy Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 731 Location: Melbourne, Australia	Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:44 am
	lol.. happens to all of us, sigh.. if not the need to earn bread & butter I'd have so much more done :P

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