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Offline Jeff Wrangler

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Mods/Admins/Philip?

This ad has been coming in once a minute. Literally, according to the time stamps I'm seeing.
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Hi Jeff, I've deleted a few hundred of these but I don't have the ability to ban the spammers. Phillip and Chrissi have been notified. It appears that only the Open Forum has been affected.
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I deleted all the spammer accounts as soon as I got home from work.

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Wow, do you realize that it's been five years since our beloved site has been invaded?
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Hmmmm... my settings reverted to ones I had years ago. Strange!
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