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Guest JBaymore

Folks........ we are trying to track down a bit more on how this happened.

 

The ONE SPAM private message that we KNOW about started off saying: 

 

My Name is Greta Lugman from Philippines the wife of Late Mr Gomes Theophilos Lugman, One of The financial advisers to Late  President Muammar Gaddafi, President of the oil riched country called Libya.

 

If you received a DIFFERENT SPAM-type private message in these forums than the one that started out THAT way above, please post some sort of identifying first line in this thread.... and also PM one of the MODS with the username of the person who sent you the PM.

 

Thanks.

 

best,

 

.......................john

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Admins, are you guys using IP.Board's personal messenger throttle option at all?  It sounds like a draconian measure, but if you're not using it, throttling down to like a message every two or three minutes maximum would be something nearly no legitimate poster would even notice, but would make things less than ideal for spammers.

 

Edit: OH!  And throttling searches to once every ten seconds or so would save you piles of bandwidth (and therefore $$).  Noticed you guys don't do that.

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Mods, are you guys using IP.Board's personal messenger throttle option at all?  It sounds like a draconian measure, but if you're not using it, throttling down to like a message every two or three minutes maximum would be something nearly no legitimate poster would even notice, but would make things less than ideal for spammers.

 

Edit: OH!  And throttling searches to once every ten seconds or so would save you piles of bandwidth (and therefore $$).  Noticed you guys don't do that.

Tyler,

The mods do not get to set the controls; the admins get to do all the fun stuff. All we do is herd cats.

Bruce

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Admins, are you guys using IP.Board's personal messenger throttle option at all?  It sounds like a draconian measure, but if you're not using it, throttling down to like a message every two or three minutes maximum would be something nearly no legitimate poster would even notice, but would make things less than ideal for spammers.

 

Edit: OH!  And throttling searches to once every ten seconds or so would save you piles of bandwidth (and therefore $$).  Noticed you guys don't do that.

Tyler,

 

I actually just ratcheted that down a bit late last week---will go further if this persists. We also limit the number of individuals one can invite to a PM, so someone cannot blast out to more than a few people at a time.

Looks like we also have search flood control in place as well. Is it not working for you?

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