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As mentioned, there is no privacy issue here to any members. All that happened was that a member spammed through Private Messages on AFO. No personal information, email addresses or data etc was accessed, it was just a one way communication from the spammer to other members on the AFO website. Any emails sent were just notifications from AFO to alert members they had a new message on AFO to read.
Measures have now been put in place to stop this from happening again. Thanks everyone for your understanding.
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Please also note that as we remove these two offending members it will also remove their content and the spam personal messages from your inbox (although it might take a day or two). Apologies all for the inconvenience from these two members.
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AFO has also increased our spam protection and also implemented further automatic content moderation of new members so that going forward there is less ability for spammers to post so hopefully this combats this so that it doesn't happen again. If there is a spam message, please click the Report function and it will ensure the spam and the offending members is dealt with.
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One of the features of AFO is the ability of members to message each other. Generally there are no issues with this and it is a good way for members to interact outside of the public forum. However, the PM system does have the potential to be abused by a member (before they are swiftly banned) and so please report any spam messages through the reporting feature and we will ban them. Thanks
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Hi All,
The site has not become corrupted and no details have been breached.
What has happened is that a member signed up and then sent multiple PM messages to quite a few members. This member has since been banned.
If you received an email, that was because you had notifications set to ON to email you when you receive a personal message on AFO. The banned member did not have access to your email address or other details, the email was generated by AFO because of your notification settings.
In response, we have made some changes to AFO to restrict new members (<30 days) to only be able to post posts and topics to 10 a day and also all members to only be able to send 15 PM's a day and this is restricted to 5 recipients to each PM.
As well as this, we have restricted further IP's and also blocked more problematic (spamming) countries from accessing AFO.
We can adjust these limits down the track if members feel they are too restrictive, but for the time being we are clamping down so that members aren't spammed and everyone can enjoy AFO without these issues.
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Hi AFO,
You may have noticed we have recently had a lot of 'friends' from a range of African countries want to join the discussions on AFO
As a result AFO has had to block quite a few African countries from registering as members on AFO. We will continue to monitor and see if that addresses the issue.
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Happy New Year AFO
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Hi, try clearing your cache in your browser, it probably has cached an old version and so isn’t seeing the updated site.
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cool, AFO has a map section but haven't really put it to use properly yet.
If you attach the marks here, we can get them imported into the GPS Marks on the map
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Great story, thanks for the post
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Is it all working for you now?
Please post issues in this category and we will look into.
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Yep, the AFO site has been updated
We will be working on making sure everything works as it should over the coming days. Lots of new features added and more coming.
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welcome to AFO
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Nice work
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great project
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great stuff
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sorry again everyone
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Hi Greg, apologies yes there was a an hour or two of downtime unfortunately with the site, if it was longer for you it was probably a caching issue. Apologies again, it was an unexpected issue that took a little to resolve.
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If this is resolved, original poster please edit first post and change prefix to resolved. thanks
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We believe all spam messages should now be deleted from your inboxes.
Also all content from the banned members should also have been removed.
Please let us know if you still have a spam PM in your inbox or have any other concerns. Cheers