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WOW the spammers have re-discovered this forum. We have had 43 new members in the last week...well only 2 new ones the rest were spammers hoping to get registered. I find it funny that here we are with a "quiet" time on the forum and very few new posts and we are being attacked by spammers registering, most are just bots. Its been a long time (years) since we had this many hits.

If any accidentally got through my checks and PM anyone, please let me know.
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again, we are really getting hit by spammers. I just deleted 546 forum membership requests for the month of January. I found a few people that tried to register that I missed (sorry, I missed your request in a timely manner, but you are now registered). The other 540ish, that I deleted were I think all spammers, I hope I didn't delete any valid registrations, but if i did, try it again please and again sorry.
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just thought I would mention something odd and good. Yesterday (June 7) we had 0 spam registrations !!! That is the first time in well over a year that no spammers/robots tried to register. Don't feel bad for them, they will catch up :roll:
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