While we're wishing... I would prefer that it be a reply to the Open Chat announcement rather than a new one. I think that could help prevent further confusion since they'd be directly

Currently, if you try to join a closed chat via the message (notification) that the chat was opened, you are taken to the list of open chats. This will be confusing for many people. I think a note

Changes to the site this week: SYSADMIN: Updated IP block lists BUGFIX: There was a bug when trying to update a credit card, it wouldn't register. CHANGE: For a moderated thread, allow replies to go

I eliminated SPAM and bogus signups from my Forums and CRM sites by using ZBBLOCK (http://spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php) Maybe Mark could look at implementing some elements of this?

Mark, I guessed wrong about email versus website, which means the addresses aren't necessarily compromised accounts. That the addresses are valid is consistent with an experiment I tried. Entering

Thank you, Mark. I did mention I wondered if the sign up box on my website was the cause, it sounds like it was a major factor. I am happy to remove it from my site if it would help and just provide a

Hi All, (messages to this thread were moderated earlier today because the thread was more than 2 weeks old. I've removed moderation on the thread). I spent the last few hours investigating this.

Our experience has been that open groups seem to attract the largest amounts of bogus joiners. And, if you have a group specifically targeted, as we do to a rare disease or similar tight focus the

Mark, enjoy your vacation to Europe I hope you enjoy your time.

Mark, Helen wrote: Perhaps it would help if the Pending Approval list could be sorted or filtered by NC status. Of course, that still doesn't help find the "legit" applicants who happen to still be

If this is a box on groups.io, I think it's an interesting idea, and even nicer if I don't see the applications to join unless it's completed properly. I just hope it isn't too much for some people

Thank you. I have always had a questionnaire before you can join any of my groups. Unfortunately it doesn't really help in this situation. One of my groups is completely untouched by this problem, the

So far we haven't had any spam signups to our recently moved group. Back in the early days we took the decision to ask applicants to reply giving a name/nickname, age and location before membership

Would it help to require a statement of why applicants want to join which could not be filled out by a machine properly, then you could glance at this box to see if it was a legitimate subscriber for

Have a wonderful time, Mark! Thanks for how hard you work; please give yourself a break and enjoy!! Travel safely, Ginny

What would be really neat (but maybe only useful to my community?) is the ability to define sign up questions. If these fields had the ability to have REGEX validation behind them then you could weed

As the owner / moderator of 3 groups I can appreciate Helen's frustration with the bogus membership requests. It's obvious from the email addresses that these are generated by phishing

We are getting swamped witth these. We've gone from 7-15 pending members a day to 50-100. The problem, Shal, is firstly the sheer volume (trying to fiind the person to approve in a list of five

From our group's perspective, we would prefer to keep things the way they are. We like the Photos section with its ability to sort photos into Albums - and we use the Files section very little.

Great, thanks! -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author. Especially the fishy ones. I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. - Desmond Tutu