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UK Jimbo · #29 08-25-2007, 11:48 AM

PM spam is something I've luckily not seen to much of on the forum I work with. It's an interesting feature but begs some privacy issues if the moderators are able to read the users' "private" messages. I'd be interested to hear peoples' thoughts on this one. One idea I had was that if SpamBuster thought a PM was spam then it either put some text at the beginning of the PM making it easy for the user to report it or it kept a count of spam PMs per user and then flagged it up when they reached a threshold.

Worth nothing that if PM spam is a problem you could disable PM functionality until a user has reached a given number of posts on the forum.

I've seen the "configurable by forum" request which is something I'll build into a future release. Can you explain how or why you'd want it configurable by usergroup?

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