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Spammer joined
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:04 pm
by James
Pete, there's a new member called "ch3ap t1ckets". This is a spambot that will fill the forum with adverts.
I'd delete him but my admin powers seem to have disappeared
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:39 pm
by AJR
James,
I've deleted him.
This happened to me earlier in the year - for no apparent reason my account reverted from Admin to User.
No idea why this has happened - the last software update??
Anyway, you are now back as an Administrator.
Cheers,
Andrew
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:45 pm
by James
Ta!
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:06 am
by madhattie
There's been a lot of this going on of late, unfortunately. Been spending a lot of time deleting new members.
But they won't spam the forums. They can't post until they get Admin approval.
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:51 am
by James
There's an extra step you can add into the sign-up process, where an image featuring random text is shown, and you have to copy the text into another box. This seems to stop the spambots joining!