TalonMan said:
...unfortunately, it's like dealing with computer viruses. The faster we come up with solutions to prevent this type of stuff, the faster these asshats come up with ways to bypass - it's a never-ending game!!! Hopefully, this will curtail the problem for a little while at least, as I can tell you that all of the people who have been getting harassed via PM were absolutely the target of a person (or bot) that was using disposable email addresses (something I didn't even know existed, until now!!). Granted - these disposable email services are pretty neat in their own right (you just hit a website, it requires NO registration of its own, and drops you right into an inbox with a brand new email address that works for a short while), but anybody attempting to use one of these addresses to register here is not doing so because they are a legit user. They are solely here to either harass people, or spam the website in general - period. And they will now have to find a new way to annoy us, because this door has now been CLOSED!! |
I hope that the spambot apocalypse is finally over