SORRY and SPAM..............

[Steven Vaccaro]

Night night a couple of wonderful new SPAM users from India signed up on our board and left about 100 posts on old and new threads. I deleted them and their posts, but I'm sure many of you received email updates on threads that you were subscribed to. I'm sorry about this. As of now I will have to manually activate new users to try to stop this crap. It seems to be happening more and more.

[egneg]

It just means that the site is doing great.

[Steven Vaccaro]

It does, but also means more problems.

For example I was searching for links to the site and found a forum that had NOTHING to do with rc boating or OSE and was using this as one of their subforum names... "OffshoreElectrics FE Boating Forums". People trying to capitalize from the keywords.

[properchopper]

Steven, you don't have to apologize, it's not your fault but I'm glad you got to the root of the problem. It's sad that a truly usefull, powerfull tool like computers get polluted by the crap that dishonest people infiltrate our board with. These bad people have cost me lots of money in computer repairs.

Jeff M. now uses an interesting "spam blocker" tool that I'm considering so all my rich relatives in Nigeria won't pester me any more. Might be worth looking at.

http://www.spamarrest.com/

[Flying Scotsman]

I have had the same issues from the bandits that Steven has mentioned....when I see a message from dubious senders, I delete it and yes my computer has been infected by these twits and as Tony states cost me a few bucks. I do a virus check every day.

Douggie

[Steven Vaccaro]

Steven, you don't have to apologize, it's not your fault but I'm glad you got to the root of the problem. It's sad that a truly usefull, powerfull tool like computers get polluted by the crap that dishonest people infiltrate our board with. These bad people have cost me lots of money in computer repairs.

Jeff M. now uses an interesting "spam blocker" tool that I'm considering so all my rich relatives in Nigeria won't pester me any more. Might be worth looking at.

http://www.spamarrest.com/

I've recently switched my email servers over to gmail. All my email addresses stay the same, just use their backend to handle the mail. Its been working nice(so far) for email spam.

[Brushless55]

I thought someone was trying to hack this site...

[Steven Vaccaro]

No hacking. At least not yet. Just the normal spam users. It happens just about every couple of days now. Danny, Dom and Jim catch most of it before anyone notices. And most times they only post a couple of times. But they spammers posted on a ton of threads.

[JimClark]

I must have deleted maybe 100 to 150 posts they were both from the same IP address so the guy switched names and went at it again at 2:00am last night he was very persistant

[rcboatmanwithkids2880]

Hi Steve ,

It's also good for your business interest , knowing that you have a World-Wide-Audience , even as far afield as the Taj-Mahal ( lol ) ...
Brad
Oz

[Steven Vaccaro]

Hi Steve ,

It's also good for your business interest , knowing that you have a World-Wide-Audience , even as far afield as the Taj-Mahal ( lol ) ...
Brad
Oz

Funny I dont ship much to India. Wonder why?

[JimClark]

But Steve that one guy could give you a deal on shipping boxes. For the heck of it I did a search on the company he mentioned and it appeared to be a legit business that had a nice website

[Boaterguy]

when I find spam i PM a mod (usually steven) with the link to let them know.

[graill]

So Steve...what you are saying is i SHOULD NOT try the new rainbow colored viagra pills they advertised?

[rcboatmanwithkids2880]

But Steve that one guy could give you a deal on shipping boxes. For the heck of it I did a search on the company he mentioned and it appeared to be a legit business that had a nice website

Be careful when you open the Shipping Boxes if they are bought , they may contain " Human Cargo " ( lol )


Brad
Oz