Tony Goldstone's Page

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Recently we've come under heavy attack by spammers.  Even though I've made signing up a multi-step process, some of them take the time to answer the questions, pick a profile photo, type the captcha and confirm their email address.  They then utilize a bot, a computer program that rapidly goes through the member list sending their spam to everyone - or until I notice and ban them from the network. 

I've been lucky the past few days to catch them within minutes, but by then dozens of members have been spammed.  I have an option that I usually enable overnight that requires my approval of new members, but I've been disabling that during the day because I feel honest members should not have to wait until I check my messages to approve them to sign in.

Minutes ago another spammer got through. I banned them within 5 minutes but sadly some of you were spammed.  I've decided to enable the member approval process full time as I don't think any of you should be subject to this.  Sadly they start at page 1 on the members page so it is the newest members who get spammed first.

I apologize that some of you have been spammed multiple times in the past few days. Please don't discourage you from being a member here, this is a friendly helpful community and we value your input and enthusiasm.

Again, I'm sorry for the spam you've gotten the past few days