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As you may have noticed, we we're offline this morning. This was caused by the "Thanks" plug-in going rogue and using up way too many server resources. This triggered an automatic suspension by our hosting provider as they thought it was a malicious attack. The "Thanks" plug-in has been disabled, hopefully temporarily so I can determine if that was indeed the cause, and take steps to prevent it from happening in the future.

I apologize for the disruption and for any confusion that may have caused.

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tjcdas
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Guys,

Anyway to send out emails to new members to confirm registration so they cant post until,hitying a link ect, to try and prevent out spam programs from signing up?

Just a thought to prevent a possible issue.

I am so happy to have the heads up thread back!!!

Thanks

Tom
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tjcdas wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 10:46 am Guys,

Anyway to send out emails to new members to confirm registration so they cant post until,hitying a link ect, to try and prevent out spam programs from signing up?

Just a thought to prevent a possible issue.

I am so happy to have the heads up thread back!!!

Thanks

Tom
I have a non-machine readable test in place, and each registration is also run through a system that scans known databases for known spam ips, emails, usernames, etc, and prevents their registration. Email authentication was causing issues because of my old hosts paltry limit on outbound emails, but I will turn it back on.

So far so good, but of course no system is infallible. If anyone sees anything suspicious, please report it and I'll swing the ban hammer.
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Re: Spambots

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Great that you are on top of things!

Thanks

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