In the interest of stopping spam, all spam, I ask that people please read the announcement at:
http://fksa.org/showthread.php?t=6859
This should answer some questions.
Here is a very important question, has anyone received spam with:
"Have You ever seen this website"
in the subject line that WAS SENT ON OR AFTER JULY 19, 2008?
I know spam was sent out prior to that time as considerable steps were taken to correct the situation. I need to know if it is working or not. From that checks I can make at my end limited as they are, it seems to be working.
DO NOT OPEN THE PM HOWEVER, DELETE IT
Please don't confuse things with reports of spam received prior to July 19, 2008 as we know about those.
Aside from major software upgrades, I am now manually screening all new members. A large quantity of accounts that have been inactive for a considerable period of time with no posts have been disabled to where they can neither post or send PMs hopefully removing the long term "sleeper spambots" from the scene. Also, PM privileges won't kick in until after 20 posts into the foreseeable future.
I believe these spam PM's may have arisen from human assisted spambots and not individual members. Not certain but there is cause to conclude this. I hope and believe things are sorted out now.
Please feel free to communicate what you have experienced to
info@fksa.org . Please read the post at the link below first however.
http://fksa.org/showthread.php?t=6859
Sorry for the inconvenience but I believe it is one more case of hackers messing with organized society. So it goes.