registering bs

[beezer]

Why does the register not allow my e-mail address but takes one i haven't had in ten years? I'd like to register but it looks like no??

[bucksteelsoloflex]

Hi Beezer,

When I set up the forum to accept everybody the number of spammers registering that I had to delete several times per day was ridiculous. A few times I took out the anti spam measures and within a few hours I had over a hundred blatant bogus registrations and spam posts to clean up.

One other thing is that I go through registrations that are unconfirmed, and delete them if they have been sitting for more than 24 hours unconfirmed. The reason for this is that I used to let the unconfirmed registrations sit for a week, and then after I deleted them, they would come back and sit unconfirmed for another week. This added up to a backlog of hundreds of unconfirmed registrations. When I manually confirmed them, they posted spam.

Sorry for any problems this might be causing.

[bucksteelsoloflex]

My anti spam measures had screwed up both the registration process for some that wanted to join, it also made a mess of the search index. I will have to consult with a computer wiz at some point to see if I can get that fixed. I am now trying a different anti spam system, so it should be easy for all to register.