Jock can't log in.

[Steve Ashton]

If you are in contact with Jock please ask him to send me a message by any means he can. I need his IP address.
Yesterday we had a large group of spammers hit the forum. I had to ban over 50 IP addresses. I have already found one IP that I typed with a typo and banned another member.

If anyone knows of any other member experiencing problems logging in it is probably due to this batch of IP addresses.

The other problem that happens some times is a spammer will use a proxy to log on to one of the dynamic IP addresses. This could be an IP used by an internet cafe or a persons house.

To fix this I need Jocks IP address. If he can get to the home page of the forum and can click on the contact us button at the bottom of the page I can get his IP address from that.

[Steve Ashton]

Would everyone please note.

At any time you experience a problem logging into the site......

Scroll down to the bottom of any page of the forum.
In the bottom right corner you will see some buttons.
The first button says "Contact Us".
Clicking that will send an error message directly to me via email.
The email will include your current IP address.
I will then check that with our banned IP address list.

This is the best method of contacting me if you are having any problems. It is done via email so you do not have to be logged in to use it.

[Tobus]

Would everyone please note.

At any time you experience a problem logging into the site......

Scroll down to the bottom of any page of the forum.
In the bottom right corner you will see some buttons.
The first button says "Contact Us".
Clicking that will send an error message directly to me via email.
The email will include your current IP address.
I will then check that with our banned IP address list.

This is the best method of contacting me if you are having any problems. It is done via email so you do not have to be logged in to use it.

Steve, when I happen to catch an IP address that's banned, it won't let me get to the forum at all. It just gives me a page that says my IP address is banned by the administrator, and won't let me even see the forum, much less get to it. So I'm not sure this method of using the "contact us" button will work, since that button is not available when a person finds their IP address banned.

[Jock Scot]

Steve, when I happen to catch an IP address that's banned, it won't let me get to the forum at all. It just gives me a page that says my IP address is banned by the administrator, and won't let me even see the forum, much less get to it. So I'm not sure this method of using the "contact us" button will work, since that button is not available when a person finds their IP address banned.

Yes indeed, that was precisely one of the problems I had.

[piperdown]

I was in Steve's shop last week for hose and we got to talking re: spammers. He told me that he literally spends hours per day keeping the hounds at bay so we can enjoy a spam free experience at X-marks.

I had no idea how much behind the scenes work was needed.

I think kudo's are in order for the chief.