Was called back via email

[Lynn]

and from the looks of the site it was part of the spam damage. So sorry to see it happening here. I run a site in the US and it was clobbered in a bad way by spammers.

I hope you can get a handle on it.

Too cold here for work on the house. -15 F real temp tonight.
cheers

 

[Louisa]

Me too, I got a filthy PM.

We run a forum too and at the moment we are totally plagued by spammers, thankfully they can register but can't post.

Have been busy installing a coal fire - so nice and warm here, Yippee.

 

[Jane Smith]

I, too, have had all sorts of email notifications. One was about a private message from Penners. And think the porno posters were rude?

Let's hope this can be resolved soon. Meanwhile, ignore the porn postings and don't click on the links, what ever you do, as I've been told that can encourage them to come back and post more links.

 

[BMcD]

I also have received an Email notifying me of a PM. Though I never clicked the link accompanying it and when I checked my in-box via the site there was no message

 

[Moo]

I got one of those this morning. I clicked on the link to my inbox but there was no new message so, assuming it was just a glitch, I sent Simon a reply telling him about it.

 

[Flyfisher]

Ditto. I assumed that the spam message had been deleted by the time I got around to looking - so thanks, presumably, to Simon for that.

 

[Moo]

These spammers are getting a bit like the cluster flies. In the great scheme of things harmless, but so numerous and therefore so irritating that extermination seems the only answer.

 

[Penners]

If you have elected to be emailed whenever a new post is added to a thread in which you have participated, then you will be emailed when a porn posting as added.

Computers are dumb. They can't tell whether a message has been posted by one of you respectable citizens or a by porn spammer.

Simon has been busy removing the spam, so if you click a link and get a "does not exist" report - that's why.

Simon has also changed the way that new accounts are registered. This can now no longer be done automatically - new accounts have to be approved by the adminstrator. So hopefully this will kill the problem.

 

[Gervase]

Ah, that clears up that little puzzler. I had a mesage arrive in my inbox at 5.26 today telling me I had a new private message, but on logging in there was none to be found.
This spamming is getting beyond a bloody joke!

 

[tony]

I got one this morning at 5:35 from Simon.

Wasnt sure if it was so just deleted it, didnt want porn, spyware or suchlike on the pc

regards

Tony