"Ghost" members and the consequences

[Mark Thomas]

I have deleted about a dozen newly-registered members overnight. None had posted, but all shared the same IP address and were probably the result of spam attempts, foiled by the Forum's security modules.

Conscious of the need to keep on top of security issues, I had already decided to upgrade the Forum software in the next couple of weeks. The Forum may be offline whilst this is going on, but it shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

[Peter1953]

I get the very strong impression that some people ("new members") are trying to use our Forum as a vehicle to promote their own business with websites and signatures, all of which has nothing to do with discussing music.