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    It's really ironic, as I was reading this I got a PM with an Einstein quote about Buddhism, and a link to a rather crude website on Meditation and Rebirth. Not at all offensive, but the person joined today, had no posts, and appropriate or not I don't need the spam. Perhaps the report icon could be adapted to PM's as well? This is the first one I've ever gotten, on any forum actually. I fwd'd it to a few of the mod's, so hopefully it was a one-time thing...Was this a site-wide spam or am I the lucky winner for today?
    Last edited by DemonsDanceAlone; 03-19-2008 at 11:13 PM.

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    I didn't get it today, but I did receive one like that about a
    month or so ago.

    John

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonsDanceAlone View Post
    It's really ironic, as I was reading this I got a PM with an Einstein quote about Buddhism, and a link to a rather crude website on Meditation and Rebirth.
    "Patricia" has been banned as a member. The spammer got about 15 PMs out before I stopped it. Those of you who got them should just delete them. Sorry for your inconvenience, but there's no way to 100% stop spammers.

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    Don't you just wish you could spike those people Joe

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    Quote Originally Posted by RobertFontaine View Post
    It is actually quite nice how little this is required. While I think we've gotten of track on b/s/t occassionally this forums members are unusually both polite and self-restrained.

    It is pleasant not to require forum nazis

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    Well said and that is how we wnat to stay, Gentlemen and Ladies

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wildtim View Post
    Don't you just wish you could spike those people Joe
    I've always wished that there was no truly anonymous proxy feature on the internet... that way perps could be traced by the ISPs or some overseer entity. But that's not likely going to happen with the strong feelings about privacy and rights of speech that many of us endorse in the internet realm. So we've got to pay the price for the freedoms.

    In thinking back, I believe the same name (Patricia) was used the last time. Probably a software spambot of sorts, although a human has to be involved to get through the filters we have in place, at least to register, and get started. Anyway, when the server crashed and the host restored back to 10/31 it erased "her" membership and ban. Fortunately, we have a throttle in place on PMs, emails, etc that prevents a user from generating them very fast (there's a required delay between successive submits). So, while it's annoying to the few that get them, we don't have the whole site inundated in a few seconds.

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