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I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby Octal450 » Wed Jun 08, 2016 4:24 am

So I have tons of spam PMs, and I cannot see who they are from. Just garbage text and 100 or so coming each day! What is going on!
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby curt » Wed Jun 08, 2016 4:30 am

Very strange, every pm I have gotten on this forum shows <subject> and then by <user>. I also get a notification email that says the from person. Maybe you could post a screen shot? If we can figure out the user who is spamming your PM we can try to deal with it.
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby Octal450 » Wed Jun 08, 2016 4:50 am

It is just blank subject and user, and then after a few mins, they all disappear, and I'm left to wonder what's happening.
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby wkitty42 » Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:41 pm

in this forum software, not sure if it is still this way in the newer versions, if i write you a PM and then delete it before you get it, you still get the notices about it... when you actually read it, it disappears out of my outbox and i can't delete it or edit it any more...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby Hooray » Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:45 pm

that is true, but you wouldn't get hundreds of such "PM zombies", unless you also happen to have received hundreds of deleted PMs ...
Please don't send support requests by PM, instead post your questions on the forum so that all users can contribute and benefit
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby wkitty42 » Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:12 pm

that's my point... it sounds like someone is specifically sending a lot of PMs and erasing them...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby Octal450 » Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:59 pm

And I cannot even see who it is!
It says in my email

You have received a new private message from " " to your account on
"FlightGear forum" with the following subject:

Re


That is all.
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby jaxsin » Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:07 pm

Well if that is the case then just do the sensible thing and turn off email alerts and then just check your pm's when you visit the forums.
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby curt » Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:20 pm

@itouchpods, can you post a screenshot of your PM page so we can even see what this looks like? As far as I know you are the only one reporting anything like this. If the screenshot contains private info and you are concerned with sharing that, maybe you can go into a paint program and blank out the info you don't want everyone to see? If you are getting an email for every blank message, that would point to something on the server side rather than something weird in your browser. The more information you can provide, the better chance we have of tracking this down.
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Re: I have hundreds of PMs!

Postby Hooray » Fri Jun 10, 2016 10:01 pm

or just send it to a moderator if you don't feel comfortable sharing screenshots with all forum users
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