Windows Phone Thoughts: Those Damn Spammers!

I'm ashamed to have to apologize for this again, but when we moved to this new format we didn't implement the "spam protection" tweak that we used on the last site - and the net result is that a spammer spidered our membership list and hit you all with some spam ("Easy Ad Post"). By default phpBB lists the email address in the membership list and on the user profile. I suppose this is to make it easier for users to communicate with each other, but the net result is that it exposes users to spam. I don't know why the people at phpBB think this is a good idea, but the solution we used was to simply stop that information from being displayed - we modified the source code to delete the Email column in the membership list, and edited the profile information the same way.

The problem lies in the fact that we didn't replicate that fix on the new site, and I completely forgot that fact. Please accept my apologies for letting a spammer get to you. If you want to contact the company that spammed you, go for it.