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Stef:
In order to protect this forum from spammers you need to provide A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS when you sign up! You will then be sent an automatic email with your activation link in it without which you won't be able to activate your account and start posting.

If you sign up using an invalid email address, we receive a failure notice and will remove your account.

If you signed up, but never received a confirmation mail, it is most likely that you entered an invalid adress (accidentially or on purpose) and that this is exactly what has happened to you. If so, please be assured: It is not because we don't want you as a member in our forum! But since you can't activate your account and we can't contact you (because we don't have your email address) this is the best option, because a) it is no use in keeping an inactive account and b) you can use your preferred user name if you try to sign up again.

Frank N. O.:
Hope the new initiative will work, although at Racerplanet we still get spammerbots despite a more elaborate system, at least so I've heard since I registered there way back in 2002.

What about us veteran users do we have to do anything?

Frank

P.S. Just listening to Wide Boy Awake "Chicken Outlaw" don't know why but I can't get it out of my head, especially when thinking of Chicken Wings and Chuck :D

Stef:
Hi there Frank! |:)\

No, nothing changes for the "veterans" in here! Except maybe for those who have signed up in the early days and didn't enter their correct email address. Because when someone writes them a PM or they have subscribed to be notified about a topic, their notification emails bounces and comes back to us.

Anyway, I haven't changed any settings, I just put up this information here for "real people" users to encourage them to try it again, in case they never could activate their account.  |:)\

Stef:
The last few days we've been infested with spam bot registrations providing email addresses ending in "@web.de". So we decided to block the whole domain name. Since we know that there are real people who use such email addresses, we thought we just mention it here. Write us a mail through our contact form or maybe use a different email address if you have trouble signing up!

Frank N. O.:
Ah nice to hear some news on the changes. A friend of mine at RP who's also a staff member since way back said that most of their bots sign up with a specific 1983 birthday and one other common demoninator, possibly the ISP, not sure. I can ask if they got some more info you could get?

Btw, not sure if I said this before or not, but one reason for bots is that they post links either in posts or in their public user profile and then when search bots search the forum posts then that domain name gets a higher rating due to more places mentioning it, besides the usual spambots with pharmacy and such.

Frank

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