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I think he has been well taken care of. Everyones eyes will be safeguarded once more from the moral garbage of the world... That is... Untill next time.. MHHU HAHAHAHAHAhahaha.. Seriously he was taken care of, but as long as there is a popular message board there will be someone there to put trash on it. Its a fact of nerd life.

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I think he has been well taken care of. Everyones eyes will be safeguarded once more from the moral garbage of the world... That is... Untill next time.. MHHU HAHAHAHAHAhahaha.. Seriously he was taken care of, but as long as there is a popular message board there will be someone there to put trash on it. Its a fact of nerd life.

ahem.  geek life.  thank you.  :-P

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I like waters idea, except that sometimes new members need a little extra help in that way.  ;)

exactly...if she's talking about setting it so that u have to have a certain # of post to pm...that wouldn't be right...new people often need to send pm's for extra help...

but if she's talking about limiting the number of people a single pm can be sent to...it should be very low, like 1 or 2...if ur not spamming why would anyone need to send a particular pm to more than 1 or 2 people?

this guy has been harshly dealt with (full ip ban) if he comes back we will know and he'll be dealt with again...ca3le has been known to take this sort of thing even further to notifing a persons isp of their actions...so rest assured that this type of thing is NOT tolerated here at testmy.net...

also...to address the issue of who has access to the members pm content...nobody does...not even ca3le...that would violate our privacy terms...so noboy has any way of knowing the content of the pm's that are sent to you...therefore there is no way of controlling that content.

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I , on behalf of TMN , along with the others who have already done so would like to apologize to any members who may have been sent a private message from a member [ if you can even call a spam-bot a ' member' ]  of obscene nature . As previously stated , this member has been delt with. He was removed from the forum ,  [plus a few added touches of my own ;)] and we will not be hearing from him again , Hopefully .

If you guys find anything like that again,  or anything just offensive in any way around testmy.... Please feel free to report it. Thats what myself, and the fellow moderators are here for. That our job! :lol:

Once again , we apologize

.s1/Nick - Testmy.net Moderation Team 

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Thanks tdawnaz  for clearing it up that no one has access to member PM's.

Maybe new members should have access to the PM but their's could be veiwed if necessary.That way they could get help but if they were problems they could be dealt with better.Or maybe some kind of content filter on new member PM's .I bet there is something like this that could be done.

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Help shouldn't go though PM's unless it's something that shouldn't be shown to the public.  When people sign up and send me a PM asking to help with their internet connection it drives me crazy. :roll:

That's a huge part of what this forum is here for.

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Actually php, I do not mind it at all. Sometimes the answers they get confuse them, and so they want a more personal touch. Feel free to PM me.  ;)

And sometimes they are embarrassed to ask. :oops:

I used the PM's quite often myself when I started.

If I feel it is something that really needs to be on the board, I suggest that quite often.  :D

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Gee I got the same TRASH thing from ED NORTON ,so as my daddy use to say one good turn deserves another.

so I believe he may have received

KILLDISK*.* .EXE

there are some mighty creative individuals out there....LOL :lol:

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For those of you with a wierd sense of humor... on my all unread topics page there was this topic titled "a member of this site sent me a PM with gay porn-i don't appreciate it!" and the topic right below it was Roco's "It's HOT" thread lol

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CA3LE (swinging from the chandelier like a monkey in heat) need to change the PM permissions to having 25 posts, that will remove this typ of spam.

I am 100 % for this if it is possible , no not the swinging from the Chandelier , :lol:

the 25 posts rule , I let my 11y   grandson on this site, as I feel comfortable with the contents , and it broadens his knowledge of the world  and puters , but I draw the line at Porn ( secretly )   I am was just about to sign him up as Jameso

so he could follow the family tradition  :lol:

regards Roco uk

P.S. Water you can swing on my chandelier any time, in fact it is swinging now , did the earth move for you too  :shock::lol: :lol:

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This member has been banned and he will be reported to his ISP.  Sorry to anyone who received this spam.  Because of the high volume of people reporting this issue I'll be unable to reply to each person individually, but our mods took care of the problem before I could even get to it.

I'm very sick right now but as soon as I'm well I will be taking actions to limit the amount of recipients allowed per message to make it difficult for people like this to spam our members.  I thought this was already in place but when I upgraded SMF I must have written over the changes.

Again, very sorry this got through.  The best thing you can do is delete the message and ignore it.  If we all ignore spam like this these people will have no reason try in the future.

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I went ahead and made the changes needed to fix this from happening in the future.  Now, regular members are allowed to send a PM to a maximum of 5 people.  This will fix the problem for sure, I'm sure that nobody in their right mind would attempt to send 6200 messages by hand... they will just move on to a site that isn't secure :)

Thanks everyone who reported this.

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For those of you with a wierd sense of humor... on my all unread topics page there was this topic titled "a member of this site sent me a PM with gay porn-i don't appreciate it!" and the topic right below it was Roco's "It's HOT" thread lol

that was by chance,  or trance, :lol: ,  php you have my kinda sense of humour  :?:icon_thumright:

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but our mods took care of the problem before I could even get to it.

I'm very sick right now but as soon as I'm well I will be taking actions to limit the amount of recipients allowed per message to make it difficult for people like this to spam our members.  I thought this was already in place but when I upgraded SMF I must have written over the changes.

Again, very sorry this got through.  The best thing you can do is delete the message and ignore it.  If we all ignore spam like this these people will have no reason try in the future.

Hey Ca3le get well soon, thanks for all you do, but please look after yourself ,

best wishes from Roco   UK.   

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So let me get this straight, It was possible to send more than one member a message at the same time. If so I see no reason for more than one at a time, except for mods anyway?

Actually I noticed that I did in fact have something in place to prevent this... I had it set to no more than 4 recipients at once.  This guy ran a script on the site though and his script sent 4 then sent 4 more then sent 4 more.... over and over and over.  So it looks as if I need to do a little bit more to prevent this from happening in the future.... as always I will figure out something to make sure that our members are safe.  But they will always try, when you have a site that has this many members and has as much traffic this site has jerks will always try to misuse the service.  I just under estimated what lengths people would go to... I never thought that someone would go to the trouble of writing a script to get around it.  I'm looking into making it where people can only send a limited amount of PMs per day... this will be impossible to bypass :)

Again, I'm so sorry for this being able to get to your inboxes.  I hope his ISP does something with him.  But I wouldn't be too suprised if he was using someone elses IP to hide.  :(

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