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Yesterday around 20 accounts were opened with mail.ru or yandex.com addresses. All appear to be accounts set up to spam the site.
Thankfully things like the nursery period prevented the site from becoming awash with spam. Anyone curious as to how LFGSS might look if these defences were not in place need only look at the test forum where they are in fact not enabled: [ame="http://test.lfgss.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3"]General - LFGSS[/ame] . The place is awash with spam, not that it bothers me as I'll delete it once I'm done.
Anyhow... to preclude the possibility of those accounts being used to get past the defences that I've put in place, I'm simply going to ban mail.ru and yandex.com accounts across the entire site. I feel that this is OK as being a London, UK focused site I can have a reasonable level of certainty that a majority of our users aren't from Russia.
However, if you happen to be someone who legitimately has an email address from one of those providers, you will need to let me know your username and the email address for that username... at which point if you also give me a new email address I can change it for you (you won't be able to change your own email address due to being banned).
The easiest way to do this is to email me at david@lfgss.com from your existing mail.ru account and to let me know of the new email address I should use. This would verify that you have access to the mail.ru account, so I will happily update your LFGSS account.
Cheers
David