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Manga Shoggoth

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Anime Jason 
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Subj: Good to know you are on the ball.
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 at 04:09:57 pm EDT (Viewed 874 times)
Reply Subj: Re: Just a warning to the folks... Emails sent possibly by the board software
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 at 08:24:23 pm EDT (Viewed 887 times)




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    I got two of those also. It looks like someone's experimenting with creating a bot that Private Messages every username on the board. Fortunately the board's tech makes sure their attempts are highly filtered.


I suspected it would be that rather than the software itself being hacked.


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    The "attachment" is because your mailer is not handling UTF-8 Chinese correctly. The Private Message form does not allow attachments (for good reason). They can try to cram an encoded attachment in, but it will arrive at the destination mangled to uselessness.


I'm not sure if that is a win for Thunderbird or not...



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    I'm looking at creative ways to block them without requiring an account for sending PM's.


Tactical Nuke?




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