I also received the same spam, although mine was from michaelrock. I forwarded it to Heather. Don't you have to be a registered user to be able to send PMs to another member? He was not listed in the member list today, so I don't know whether Heather removed him or there is another way non-members can send PMs.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > > Alex Shaw wrote: > > Just received forum spam! >> >> You have received a new private message from "Michaelrork" to your account >> on "LiveCode Forums" with the following subject: >> >> I looking for XRumer 12.0.9 with discount ! >> >> Based on what I read on the wikipedia entry on 'XRumer' the moderators >> may want to get onto this. >> > > Any account holder can turn off PMs for their account. > > I and the other mods remove spam in the forum whenever we find it (nixed > two accounts just today), but we can't access your PMs. > > In recent months the number of spambots has dropped significantly, but if > this becomes any sort of rampant problem we can review the possibility of > shutting down the PM system altogether. We re-opened it by user request, > though, so I'd be reluctant to do this unless it were absolutely necessary. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > LiveCode Community Manager > rich...@livecode.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Regards, Howard Bornstein ----------------------- www.designeq.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
