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alistair · 17-10-2010, 07:39 PM

(16-10-2010 11:29 AM)nigelgatherer Wrote: Cleared out the bogus registrations on Wednesday. Looked this morning and there 66 new ones. I have to go through each one to make sure that there aren't any genuine ones and frankly I'm fed up with it. The alternative is to let everyone join and delete people as they make trouble. Maybe I'll do that. Will we then get a flood of spam, advertising, etc?

It's my opinion that it's to do with firms who say they can improve your site's ranking by linking to high volume sites. Mine's not extremely high volume, but it attracts a lot of people around the world, so maybe that's why it's a target.

Just venting.

Maybe an alternative would be just to close the forum to new members for a while, Nigel. Anyone who knows you and is keen to join could just email you and (presumably) you could add them with a default password. And if anyone mailed you who had just found your email address somewhere, you might never even receive their message if your spam filter rejected it.