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To: Matt Brown who wrote (1828)	12/21/2005 9:22:15 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4105

You need to have a warning that anyone who signs up with the express intent to spam automatically waives any rights to privacy surrounding their account and that said identifying information will be turned over to the self-appointed SI Stop Spam Society (SSSSS) for appropriate "action." - Jeff

To: Matt Brown who wrote (1828)	12/21/2005 2:03:08 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 4105

Blog spammer: Member 9107018 Bob, Dave, Matt: A lot of us old-timers are getting sick of this Yahooligan spammer crap, all walking in through the free posting door. Time to slam it shut before we are overrun.

To: Matt Brown who wrote (1828)	12/22/2005 4:09:11 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 4105

Any reason you haven't zapped this turd yet? Member 9107018

To: Matt Brown who wrote (1828)	12/22/2005 6:56:00 AM
From: Arcane Lore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4105

QTEK/SRSM/BTYH spammer's latest accounts: Member 9107036 Member 9107038 Member 9107039

To: Matt Brown who wrote (1828)	12/22/2005 9:37:21 AM
From: Done, gone.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4105

Yo! Wasup? Sleeping in today or what!? Spam still all over the place and nobody doing a damn thing about it. Dave would have dealt with it before anyone even woke up and saw it. Not exactly filling his shoes, dood, are you? Quelle surprise.

To: Matt Brown who wrote (1828)	12/22/2005 11:58:38 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 4105

If you change the behavior of the signup screen frequently you will probably disrupt the scripts used by the freebie spammers for a short time. Bob might be able to write an SQL script to rotate through a sequence of previously defined signup screens.

To: Matt Brown who wrote (1828)	12/22/2005 5:29:21 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 4105

You dead or what? All that spam MrB pointed out this morning is still sitting there, inviting copy cats: Message 21995831 Get that lazy Fat Matt ass off that iHump seat of yours and do your SI job, already!! SO annoying.