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[Neo]

Dear Forum member;

Recently some email harvesting was attempted on our FHF forum. Whilst most members choose to hide their email addresses, there is some contact and profile information viewable by members as soon as they join.  The moderators and admins believe that it is more appropriate for some features of FHF membership to be restricted until a minimum post count is reached.  This may help to dissuade persons from joining FHF for purposes other than to engage in productive communication with fellow members, whilst not restricting the basic features of the FHF forum.

When these changes are made, new members (Junior Members) will be able to participate in the forum, but extended features such as Karma, Calendar, Downloads, Gallery, Polls and Attachments will have only limited functionality. Junior members will not be able to view the memberlist or other member's profiles.

Whilst every attempt has been made to ensure that the right combination of forum permissions has been put in place, if any unintended consequences emerge please bring them to our attention.

Neo,  technical moderator.

[controller]

why don't you message all members and warn them of the member who is spamming the forum members. Surely you will know who it is.

But if it is just someone going through all the members, copying and pasting their details into email then good luck, as most of us have filters in place in our email and it will end up in the junk file.

[keely]

Thanks for addressing this Neo, I believe the new limitations are reasonable and proportionate to solving the problem.

[hot shot viks]

why don't you message all members and warn them of the member who is spamming the forum members. Surely you will know who it is.

But if it is just someone going through all the members, copying and pasting their details into email then good luck, as most of us have filters in place in our email and it will end up in the junk file.

the thing is though, people could spam everyones email by logging on as a guest, as there was nothing in place to stop guests or members that have only posted once or twice looking at other members info.

I agree with keely. I think you have done the right thing!!

cheers neo!!

viks

[controller]

I think some people have misunderstood what I have said.

I was asking for the Mods to email the members with the problems and the rules and understanding of the problems that have occurred.

You will be able to see who the regular posters are and who are the ones misusing the site. Also I think if someone is new then they should not be able to see anyone names and address until they have reached at least 50 posts. This is what I do for another forum I run, but, this site is not hockey related.

[hot shot viks]

cool cool!!

apologies controller!!  I agree with you too!!

viks

[Neo]

why don't you message all members and warn them of the member who is spamming the forum members. Surely you will know who it is.

But if it is just someone going through all the members, copying and pasting their details into email then good luck, as most of us have filters in place in our email and it will end up in the junk file.

Ah, if only it was that simple...  Professional Spammers use sites that either hide the originating email address, or use virus-compromised machines to send spam on their behalf so that the identity of the real spammer is hidden.  Then there's the harvesters who make their money from collecting email addresses and on-selling them. So there's no bogey-person on the forum who sent spam to members to tell anyone about.

However, FYI, even the mild recent tightening of the membership permissions has restricted that feature to just 25% of the members.