[TriLUG] phpBB and spam FW: Activate user account

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Thu Apr 30 07:49:21 EDT 2009


Maybe I'll have to pick up the phone and call upstairs for divine
intervention :-)


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Jason Watts
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:29 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] phpBB and spam FW: Activate user account

Jim,

A friend of mine uses phpBB.  I know one of his methods was to validate
each
user individually... He eventually switched to another board type...  He
got
hacked and was being used as a spam email generator several times.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Andy Random <andy.random at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jim Ray wrote:
>
> Can do. I'll be happy if I can just get rid of the 4-5 spammers per
day. Do
>> you think an exorcism would work?
>>
>
> If it does I'll take that as a sign and convert immediately :)
>
>  Andy
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