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[Frodo]

heflys20, on Apr 17 2009, 05:01 PM, said:

Yeah, add muzrinkl to the list.

Added, thankyou.     

Private Messages are disabled until we can sort this out.

[TheDragonQueen]

Thank you for trying to get rid of the bots. I've had no more of them sent to my private e-mail address, I'm glad to say.  

[Frodo]

We have been informed that update patch for the forums is now installed.  Hurray!  

We have turned Private Messages back on.  Please let us know if there are any problems.  

Thank you for your patience during this time.  

[TheDragonQueen]

Thanks Frodo, will let you know if I have any problems  

[Nick]

Another bot: justrakop.

[Frodo]

Sorry about this inconvience Nick.  It seems that Studentis didn't install the update patch at all.  

I have turned PMs off again.

[Nick]

That's alright. Doesn't really bother me.

I have never seen a bot problem like this before. I did have an old forum that was abandoned, and attacked by a spam bot. But nothing like this.

[Frodo]

Let's go bot-hunting.  

*digs out her bot-gun*

[hfric]

don't you have capcacha letters or something to stop them? or are those Ai's getting so intelligent they get past it o.O

[Frodo]

Yes, we have Captcha.  It is believed that humans are registering first of all, to get past the Captcha, then they activate the bots to send out spam PMs.

[arlesya]

oh... I thought ppl missed me. So sad!  

jg007, on Apr 7 2009, 05:05 PM, said:

on the plus side... first time I have logged into reloaded for a looooong time

admit it guys u were just trying to bring up the site figures

it's true. it brought me back to both forums after almost 5 months of absence. great to be back =D

[Doubler]

Great to have you back
Same goes for everyone. We haven't been able to say something good came from bots before

[Frodo]

Okay, we have made some tweaks, and have now enabled Private Messages again.  

Please note that there is a limit of one Message in every 5 minutes.  

If you have any problems, please post here, or contact one of the crew.  Thanks.  

[Cyko_Hedgehog]

Got one today about Forum Rules from 'burdirkaz'

[Shunk Eat Enemy]

Please for the love of flying spaghetti monster delete my account. I keep getting spam.