Oh great, now we’re screwed.
We probably got spam blocked because we were allowing registrations without e-mail verification. But now that we’ve enabled it, our verification e-mails are blocked.
There could still be some existing user accounts created before the registration requirement being used by spammers.
We’re kind of in a jam here. Can you make sure there’s nothing else you can think of that might be acting as an open e-mail gateway or way for spammers to use our system for putting out spam? Check the e-mail logs and see if there’s been a lot of traffic and what it’s from. If you can figure out what the problem was and shut it down, then after you’re sure it’s fixed, request PBL to take us off the block list.
If there’s a way to prohibit the forum from sending e-mail notifications, maybe we should do that.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: no activation mail
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:30:35 +0200
From: Youri youri.de.bruycker@telenet.be
To: satoshin@gmx.com
Hey Satoshin,
I tried to register me at the bitcoinforum, but I didn’t get an activation mail. Tried the resend activation code option a few times, changed the mailadress from my telenet to my gmail and back, but no luck. Looked at my spam folder but it’s not there. So I guess something went wrong, could you activate my account?
My username is Skull88.
Thanks in advance, Youri
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.