Oolite Bulletins

Why is my mail banned, where should I post this question?

current mail address: [email protected]
banned mail address: [email protected]

ngoj wrote:

Why is my mail banned,

The email addy was probably mistaken for a spamming addy. It can happen sometimes.

where should I post this question?

Outworld.

ngoj wrote:

Why is my mail banned, where should I post this question?

current mail address: [email protected]
banned mail address: [email protected]

Your name is a subset of somebody who lights up SFS like a Christmas Tree (is one possible reason) http://www.stopforumspam.com/search?q=ngoj

Another is possibly that the banned email also looks somewhat like the format of a known spammer...

http://www.stopforumspam.com/search.php?q=mhmd

I'm sure the admins will sort it out.

Welcome to the friendliest board this side of Riedquat (tm) [unless you're spam of course, where you're tagged and obliterated in fairly short order...]

EDIT - that's spam in general - not implying you're spam...

DaddyHoggy wrote:

[unless you're spam of course, where you're tagged and obliterated in fairly short order...]

EDIT - that's spam in general - not implying you're spam...

No, I reckon you were really implying he is a "Shoulder of Pork And haM" (the original acronym)!

All x<number>@yahoo.com addresses are banned. This is a legacy from a time when we had far more spambots than now; I’ll remove it.

Tko ti kriv kad imaš yahoo mail.

Greetings neighbor. Our spam assassins are little edgy lately. Maybe they should switch to decaf.

goran wrote:

Our spam assassins are little edgy lately. Maybe they should switch to decaf.

They already did.. you should'a seen them before...

goran wrote:

Tko ti kriv kad imaš yahoo mail.

Now, now. That’s not nice. Some people just don’t know any better. ;-)

OK, I'll wait
Admins will fix it or not, I am glad you take attention on my post.

I removed the ban shortly after I said I’d remove it. you should be able to change it now.

ngoj. It might be a good idea to remove your email addresses from the top post. Unless you like spam

Cmdr James wrote:

ngoj. It might be a good idea to remove your email addresses from the top post. Unless you like spam

Seconded. Also DaddyHoggy ought to do the same on his quote!

today I received: (.com changed in the link so it is not harmful)

From: ModeratorTeam
To: Neverlast74
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:58 am
Subject: Important message from the forum administration! Quote message
Dear, Neverlast74!

A virus alert was noticed on your computer.
We highly recommend you to check your computer and perform online virus check at our site immediately: [link removed by mod]. If you do not pass this test we will have to delete your account and forward a complaint to your Internet provider.
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Forum Administration aegidian.org.

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it seems there is something going on.

Neverlast74 wrote:

today I received: (dont click on the link)

From: ModeratorTeam

Yes everyone got the spam message. Ignore!

JazHaz wrote:

Cmdr James wrote:

ngoj. It might be a good idea to remove your email addresses from the top post. Unless you like spam

Seconded. Also DaddyHoggy ought to do the same on his quote!

Never been a problem - my blog is run by my local paper and they didn't report an increase in spamming after I linked to my blog - you'd have to ask Ahruman if he gets much spam on his oolite email in his sig...