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MartinG · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject: New user registration

Sadly I've had to disable the automatic self-registration for new users. There were typically 2 or 3 attempts every day by people trying to register 'users' with links to (predominantly) sex sites. Whilst not an incredibly onerous task, it was becoming something that I felt compelled to police every day and that was using up valuable time.

For a trial period at least, new users will need to be approved by Admin (i.e. me!). Normal turnaround on this will be fast - usually less than 24hrs. If this should become problematic for any reason, I may look at recruiting some more Admins to help out...

Thanks,
Martin

MartinG · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject:

A quick update to this.

Over the past few months I've seen an increasing number of spammers trying to register with dodgy website links in their details. I carefully vet every requested registration and anything like this is automatically deleted without recourse.

So just a note to those that might think they get something from doing it - don't bother. You're wasting your time.