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Posted by Doug Clifford (24.19.50.177) on February 16, 2004 at 11:39:53:
Some of you are aware we have strived to keep this photography message board completely free of spam and commercial messages. At first we simply deleted spam and solicitations to visit p*rnographic web sites; the spammers retaliated by posting as many as a hundred messages at a time. We needed stronger tools so a few months ago we began capturing the internet protocol addresses of everyone who posts in our forum. The IP address appears in each message, enabling us to immediately identify the source. Each time a spammer has posted filth in the forum, we have DENIED them and anyone using the same IP block from any further access to the entire ACE Index.
Two spammers (perhaps the same person with different identities) had the chutzpah to send email and DEMAND to be given access to the forum. I answered and told them "when hell freezes over."
Now they've responded. They are sending out tens of thousands of emails for V*agra and sex ads with the ACE Index email address as the sender. (These are essentially the same ads we removed from the forum.) Hundreds of letters each day are being bounced back to our mailbox, making it likely we'll have to change our email address and keep it private.
The fight goes on.
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