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Re: Attention!
It's not just Yahoo addresses, unfortunately, and many legit folks have and use Yahoo accounts. Same for AOL, Gmail, etc. Some of the domains are overseas -- .ru (Russia) and such. Some are other people's domains but with fake addresses created from them. It's all over the map. Also, much of the recent spam has been from spammers who take the time to register on the forums. Unless every registered user here wants to have their posts moderated (would drastically increase my workload and would cause new posts not to display until I approved them), there will STILL be some spam that gets through. If it is at the same or similar rates as it has been, we'll address that with other methods. Almost none of the spammers register with a real email address, and that is why email validation for new users is again turned on.
We've done a lot behind the scenes, but just like terrorists, spammers' techniques evolve and what used to work ceases to and requires new (and more time-consuming) efforts on the part of site owner's and forum administrators.
Last edited by Shannon : 08-13-2006 at 09:33 AM.
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