Can whomever runs the wiki forum take this to heart?  I've noticed some
spam being posted on the wiki, and the last thing I need is for
something illegal to get posted.

--Russell

Forwarded by Russell Miller <[email protected]>
----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
 From:    restaurantlancaster <[email protected]>
 To:      [email protected]
 Date:    Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:41:56 -0700
 Subject: Auto-Response: Do not auto-approve this forum account, it was created 
by a forum spammer. Re: Your Tiki information registration 
(wiki.opengraphics.org)
----

You're receiving this message because your forum software is still
allowing a user to complete the first part of registration to your
forum with an easy password. This is an auto-response to your forum's
confirmation message. That means your security settings are way too
low on your forum, even if you are manually approving new accounts.

The account which created this forum account did so using automated
means. The reason was so that he could post a forum account and then
use it to automatically post thousands of fake messages to your forum
to promote some form of ridiculous product there.

In all likelihood your website has nothing to do with whatever this
idiot is promoting, but in any case you definitely do not want to be
promoting this scumbag's websites.

Delete this account, and any other account tied to the email address
which sent you this automated response.

The way to prevent this activity from continuing is to make all new
registrations require a more complex, secure password. Increase the
required length and make sure it requires uppercase, lowercase and
punctuation characters. Do not allow automated self-registration of
new accounts. If you've been getting a lot of messages like the one
you're reading now, that means your forum is still far too easy to
register at, even if you manually approve the accounts.

Apologies for any further inconveniences this message causes.

Sincerely,

Random Digilante

http://randomdigilante.blogspot.com/


--------------------- Original Message Ends --------------------

-- 
Russell Miller <[email protected]>

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