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Thread: We may be forced to remove our Forums. Sorry.

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    Unfortunately, over the past three days we have been bombarded with posts to our Forums for pornography and other inappropriate subject matter. We are deleting the offensive posts as quickly as we can. But it appears that certain "spam mills" in foreign countries as well as the USA, have spread the word that our site is open for free posts and they are taking advantage of us with their garbage. If we can't control it, I will remove our Forums. Frankly, I was hoping more of our regular website visitors would make use of the Forums, but you haven't. We're disappointed. We invested time and money to make the Forums possible and if only the spammers are going to use it, we will just have to cut our losses and take them down off the web. We thought by now many of you would use our free Forums to advertise your garage sales and discuss your shopping tips, favorite restaurants, share car info and more. It appears that you just want our info without sharing what you know, and that's a shame. Regards, Alan

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    Since I am seeing this post a week later I am assuming you were able to save your self from the spam barrage. Good luck with it and I hope you get more posters.

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    The service we use that provides the software was able to improve its security to block certain "spam mills." thanks.

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    Good luck with keeping out the undesirables.

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    Originally Posted by Frank Kneeland View Post
    Good luck with keeping out the undesirables.
    Thanks Frank, but that was about 9 months ago when we had the spamming problem with users primarily from Eastern Europe who were posting links to all sorts of commercial sites. We were able to block the spam mills and in the last few months had little trouble. But we keep monitoring the forums and quickly remove any new spam that might appear.

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