Please excuse this anti-commercial interruption: Spam-busters R Us
For five hours this week, I cleared out thousands of spam topics and posts in the Forums — my message boards. Starting the night of Nov. 21, hundreds of spammers (human and spambot) began bombarding the boards, leading to a flood of posts for drugs, porn sites, dissertation help and whatnot. I zapped most of them. But in the process of pruning the registered users who defaced the Forums, I may have deleted or deactivated legitimate users. I apologize if you are among them. I think you can reregister with a different email address. I also may have deleted your topic or post. Again, I’m sorry. But I’m still learning how to prevent this crap, so bear with me. I have tons of good stuff to report.
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As of 10 a.m. Pacific on Thanksgiving Day, I’ve disabled registration for all users, targeting the turkeys who continue to post spam on these boards. I’ve also reduced the number of boards, and transferred their posts to Talking Masters Track. Sorry for the hassle
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