Hi, Mike. I did just receive an email stating that you had registered. Usually either myself or BirDogEd would activate the account. The distressing thing is that the last 3 obvious spambots that registered today did not trigger an email to me, so I can only assume that someone/thing has been intercepting those registrants and activating them - Ed and I are not activating ANYTHING at this point. I won't activate your account either, so if you ARE activated it won't have been by me or Ed.
Since I assume you are new to the Lefever Forum, it used to be that anyone could see all our various subforums on the index page. Now you only see a generic "The Lefever Forum - General" link that leads nowhere. However, as you've found out the search function is still active. All our various posts, etc still live on the Informe.com servers but just can't be accessed from the index page. Additionally all of mine and Ed's administrative panels (hidden from regular users behind a password) are no longer functioning so we can't delete the spambots.
It's also been verified by Keith that once you are an active member you can't delete your own profile. Only an admin can do that, and Ed and I don't have that ability any more. We're totally locked out.
Have tried unsuccessfully to contact Informe.com about the issue, even going so far as to threaten to pull EU Interpol into the matter (not that that probably scares Informe.com in the least. I believe their servers reside in Eastern Europe - whois.com shows them hiding behind a service provider in western USA.)
Last edited by ADG; 05/02/18 02:23 PM. Reason: spelling
