random PMs
 

had this PMed to me this afternoon, from a member with no posts.

just letting you know so we can keep the forum clean.

Cheers.

Yeah I had a few cocks PM me.

Oddly, Kimberley hasn't PM'd me telling me when he's sending me the bushes that are way over due.

i had the same pm mate, fuckin forum.:mad:

yea i have had 3 so far all different, wouldn't they have had to pay £10 to try and get everyone to sign up to shit???

looks like they found another hole in the spam filter :( was doing really well recently too.

please PM me with names of users or report posts whenever this happens

Il go into admin board and try and sort out the hole in the permissions. cheers.

And i have not heard from Kimble either since his last post on here about member subscriptions. He has been online but gone quiet.

second time in 2 days same username :

Snap on that one, bloody spammers.

another user group permission error. Ive sorted it now.
Users awaiting approval can now only send one pm. (to admin if need be)

I thought everyone paid RichardK and his 'support team' to do this? :trout:furious



Ive banned that user CocoChanels as well

i take that as no update on location of funds then?? :(

yes, there in Richards bank lol....or were once.

spam
 

i had this one, http://www.nissansilvia.co.uk/vbb/member.php?u=8348

I've just re-banned this user. :confused:

another one.

Cheers guys.

he's gone, i had the same PM. Well done spammers, send PMs to moderators lol

Ironically he prolly used Xrumer to spam us :P

http://www.seopedia.org/spam/blackha...ming-software/

nope nothing.. i have concerns as to why we are still using this forum software also. It is a rip off of open source code which Kimble decided we needed a long time ago, and its ooold. If you want to see what free forum ware can do look at www.thehh.co.uk. No spam to be found there or on many other open source based forum engines. The logic of his descision eludes me to this day. He said it was to protect us from spammers etc, but that clearly isnt working is it:rolleyes:.

This kinda needs reviewing, but since a long time ago when we had unreliable hosts pulling the plug on us Kimble appointed himself dictator of the clubs descisions after "kindly" offering to host this forum on the back of his company's already shared server. It was only recently his true motives became apparent. This is why I for one was outraged when he turned around and tried to operate this place like a business.

So there we have it; we could migrate host and software et al quite easily if Kimble would return the club funds to the Treasurer [Jon i believe], as I believe that Kimble is not competent to handle them, and suspect he has used the funds to subsidise his own interests:mad:

Can't see whats better about that forum generally? Datmans site was on PHP and it got done over in a big way. VBulletin is like the industry standard, nothing wrong with it in my opinion, obviously it takes some time to set up against spamming as other VB sites I go on don't get the issue.

Guys, not that i own a Silvia anymore :( but you guys were all quite helpful and I don't plan on being Slivia-less forever so I'd happily offer my services gratis (i'm a web dev) if you wanted to migrate to better forum software. Invision power board is always a very popular choice.

As for hosting, I tend to use Rochen, they are rock solid, the servers are always up to date and performance tuned, they have excellent and, more importantly, competent tech support and more often than not resolve a query within half an hour. They cost a bit more and don't offer as much space/bandwidth than others but there's a reason for that and it's quality. Be very caucious with firms who offer unlimited or very high amounts of space or bandwidth - the servers are usually oversold, slow and prone to hacking attempts!

..alternatively, you could go down the (virtual) dedicated server route which is nowhere near as expensive as it used to be....

http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/rps_offers.xml

think we need to start again, cut loses (enraging as it is!!!) and accept the club funds have been stolen.

nothing wrong with VBB imo, infact most other forum software is much less pleasant to use.

Nedge, I think Jon (pukka) is the best person for you to speak to if you think you can help out :)

The point is that paying for this forum software isnt required, and the benefits don't justify the cost.

Perhaps you didnt notice what I was pointing out about the HH site because you had not noticed the absence of spam, on the board or via PM. It is a good example of a well maintained and more popular site, proving that the free software can be more secure than the premium paid crap we're using, which in case you didn't know is built on open source software itself.

As for hosting, thats what contracts are for. as long as the terms are right then you go with the lowest bidder.

Problems arose when the person handling the money said they needed too much than what would be reasonable for a community this size on a SHARED server. Kimble rented a dedicated machine them lumped as many clients website as he could onto it saying to each that it was dedicated, with the club footing almost all of the bill.

Guess the best thing to do to get the ball rolling is send any membership renewals to Jon directly, then we can atleast regain some degree of justification for our membership fees

ive had 3 PM spams in the last 48hrs, it dont really bother me, i just delete them, just letting you know for ongoing updates :D

i've had 2 mate,:)

me too, i've banned them. not much else i can do as i dont have access to admin for approving/declining new users

Thats not really the issue here,spam messages aren't really causing us a problem.
The whole where did our subscription go is though.

Richard Kimberly put it in his bank account and went missing

thanks. but i dont require £ from anyone. i have webspace with GTD i can lump all this on, i just havnt had the time or the vbb membership codes

what about if we put some cash together to take Kimberly to court.

Pukka if you can just export the data into a common format and reload it onto some freeware if you want to force a relocation :) sod kimberlys codes

they are getting a bit more daring now

even if they did cock it up a bit

i've had the same one, but with my name on and a few others mate, it really grinds my gears lol.:furious

it worries me coz sometimes people dont realise the program they want you to download is the virus, and in panicing they in effect infect them selves, when in the first place they were clean!!!! just hope all on here read this and dont open it. :(

JohnCutter
 

Guy claims he is going to ban me if I don't download some software. This is the 5980458094385 PM I've gotten that is spammy.

issue fixed