Over 1600 members?

[muleParticipant]

I get two to four little blue pill emails a day….. You better knock it off Scott. 😛 Joking…. about Scott…

So, if we go to an approval process, will it just cut down on the false membership count? Is the new security code keeping them from getting our email addys or what will?

[Ed Dawson]

My spam emails have been coming to the email addresses that are published on the site – like in the volunteer sign up section or equipment manager section. I bet Warren gets them as webmaster at ncrocketry as well.

I’m pretty sure that if you are just posting on the forum then your email address is invisible to any invaders.

[James Russell]

My point is, who is all these members and why are they a member of this forum? I would bet that there is less then 500 people here in CO that are flying with NAR or TRA and have been to or are going to NCR launches.

[Warren B. MusselmanModerator]

There is an automated program, probably many of them, that crawl the web looking for sites built with PHPNuke – the software that runs this site – and automatically creating new users. While we can prevent those user accounts from posting, we cannot prevent them from being created. Guess it will have to wait until we can upgrade to the latest version of PHPNuke. It causes no problems except for the spurious user accounts, so it isn’t high on the priority list to resolve. Jeremiah and myself are keeping an eye on things and eventually when we upgrade we will strip the spurious accounts and in fact, all user accounts that haven’t been logged in to in over a year and we’ll be back down to a more reasonable 300 or so.

Warren

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