Sorry about the spam....

this is the main message area for anything solar :)
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Well, some jerk got through the extensive spamming preventions I have on our forum. These walls also make it less convenient for us to use the forum for its intended purpose by making me block certain file types, have a long procedurre for creating an account, etc... I am not sure what prompts someone to spam a forum like this one with Nike shoe ads or penis pills or porn sites or whatever. I guess it is because people keep clicking these stupid ads and make it worth their while.

Anyway, thanks to Merlin (I guess) for deleting this stupid spam before I got here. I sent a scathing email to what is probably a spambot address anyway [email protected] . Sickening really. all this work that has to be done to prevent these lowlife scumbags from polluting our safe environment.

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Yeah,
Stephen, I had the opportunity and took it before you ended up with 60 messages in each of the sections!
I honestly don't know how they manage to get into some of the forums!
(I've been unable to register for a spectroscopic group as everytime they open the portal for registration it's flooded with spam.)


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maybe get a day off for once?


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personally I wouldn't response to any spam email address, it just gives them a live email address to circulate to all the other gutter spam merchants


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I used a one time yahoo address


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I used a one time yahoo address

that works :)


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