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[quote="callerYou like spam? :?[/quote]


Caller, clearly, you don't understand my posts.

Let's leave it at that.
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To be fair to Caller, you are often the master of the cryptic and ambiguous post Nangyang [whether they be understood or not].......lol.
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Thanks for your patience, the mods did a sterling job yesterday keeping them at bay. We have now deleted all accounts registered in the last 48 hours (apologies if any genuine ones were in there) and changed the registration criteria which seems to have halted the onslaught of automated spam bots.
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We have recently been attacked by spambots so have deleted all accounts registered in the last 24 hours.

Please re-register if your account was genuine, we apologise for the inconvenience.
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Another surge in spambot activity has resulted in the deletion of all spammy looking accounts registered this month.

If a genuine account has been included in this purge we apologize, please re-register.
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We have been attacked by spam bots again so have deleted any spammy looking accounts registered since Dec 01 2017.

If yours has gone in the process we apologise, please re-register.
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Lev wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:05 am We have been attacked by spam bots again so have deleted any spammy looking accounts registered since Dec 01 2017.

If yours has gone in the process we apologise, please re-register.
Can you get rid of the spam bots LEV, or am I really the lucky 1,000,000th visitor and have won an Apple product?
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Re: Forum being attacked by spam bots

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Spam bots are taking over forums once again so we have deleted several hundred suspicious accounts registered in the past two months. We apologies if any genuine ones were caught up in the purge.
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Re: Forum being attacked by spam bots

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We are getting hammered by spam bots again so need to log users out, block IP addresses and purge accounts from time to time. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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