what happened to the banner photo?

[Stu]

The "phpBB" banner is exciting, but what happened to the banner photo?

[510rob]

tl/dr ---> spam

The spam attacks have been getting really bad lately, to the point that Byron and I are having to wade through and deal with upwards of 150 spam posts on some days.

• Gambling crap
• Porn crap
• Business opportunities crap
• Fake id crap
• Fake passports crap
• Write-your-term-papers crap
• Prescription drug crap
• This crap
• That crap
• Crap on top of crap.

It got ridiculous over the past month so Spencer and I are trying a couple of things:

• The first part was that Spencer updated the phpBB software and apparently that means we lost the banner (for now?).
• The second part was to set up an e-mail account for sending spam-related IP source data back to the source's system admins so those commercial system admins can deal with spam emanating from their machines; we'll see how this second part of the approach works out!

[icehouse]

I was tired of seeing that wagon anyways.

[cartel]

ditto..

time for a car of the month