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Private Message Flood Control
I have a problem with people actually creating PM spam to a large number of my users. This take quite some time to deal with on each outbreak.

Does anyone have any ideas or code to implement a flood control to limit the number of PMs sent in a given timeframe?

Or some form of user earned method of being able to PM others.
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Re: [Jammer] Private Message Flood Control In reply to
I have the same problem. Today someone registered on the forum and then sent a spam email via the private message system to around 100 users. I'm not sure if they used an automated system to submit the messages. Does anyone have a way of preventing this?

thanks
Tim

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Tim Ault
Oxford UK
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Re: [timbo] Private Message Flood Control In reply to
Hi,

Man - some people are such idiots *mad* (had someone called Paul do that a good few years ago to myself, and a few other moderators and veterans).

I think the only real way - is to setup some kind of CAPTCHA security image system when sending the private messages.

I'll see if I can put something together.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Re: [Andy] Private Message Flood Control In reply to
Or just check the last message time of the user and stop them posting for x seconds. Pretty easy.