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September 4, 2016 – 5:47 pm
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What’s with all these weird post with what appears to be from the Middle East?  I hope they can’t gain access to our e-mail addresses to start spamming us.

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September 4, 2016 – 8:39 pm
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It is Russian spam bots. We are taking steps to get rid of the problem. Your emails are safe.

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September 5, 2016 – 1:22 am
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Thanks for watching over this site and us Aaron.

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September 5, 2016 – 2:43 am
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Aaron Stehling said
It is Russian spam bots. We are taking steps to get rid of the problem. Your emails are safe.  

Russians!!!   Hillary’s lost emails will probably start showing up here.

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September 5, 2016 – 11:04 am
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Laugh

We have added D. Price as a moderator and took some steps to stop the bots.

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September 5, 2016 – 2:17 pm
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Happens all the time every day, every minute across US forums. Nothing new. Like stated its bots automatically posting. One way to combat is by using enhanced CAPTCHA with images when requiring registration. 

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September 5, 2016 – 5:53 pm
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That is what we did CJ . Captcha has been put back on the site for new sign ups. 

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