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Old 12-21-2009, 03:21 PM
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Default More Agressive Spam fighting

Today I deleted my first user where I was not 100% sure they were a spammer as they were not listed in the spammer registry I use.

This user has
Registered on 8 military related boards in the last hour.
Has a previous history of attempting to sell Airsoft products
Comes from an IP address in Nigeria.
A related email address (found side by side in an old airsoft sales post) is in the spammer database.

We get about 10 spammer users per real user now (as most of our small group have already found us). Given those types of number I am of course afraid of false positives.

Just letting any users know that if you get deleted in error please send me a message via the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page and I will make sure it does not happen again.

Also if you for some reason cannot get past the email registration I can flip that registration flag for you.
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