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Can spambots send emails?
Topic Started: Feb 28 2007, 07:09 PM (345 Views)
michaelm
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I know that guests can't send emails through the forum, but one of my member's recently pointed out to me that in the Currently Active list, there are indeed a lot of guests who are "Contacting member via email"

Is that actually possible? I don't think it is, but I suppose it's worth asking.

Would that status come up if a bot had tried to use the email form, and been left looking at the error message page perhaps? :unsure:
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Seifer44
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Idk, but to be sure, I'd suggest making a separate members group, that looks exactly the same, but you can't send emails till after an allotted amount of posts. Bot's can't really post without being obvious enough to delete ^_^.
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Helena
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michaelm
 
Would that status come up if a bot had tried to use the email form, and been left looking at the error message page perhaps?


You are correct. They may show up as using the e-mail, PM, posting in X forum....whatever....but what is happening is that they tried to, but are getting an error message.
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