[Linuxsampler-devel] Forum Site

[Christian S. <sch...@li...>]

Hi,

as some of you may know, registration on the forum site (bb.linuxsampler.org) 
was disabled for a certain while. That was because we had massive issues with 
spam attacks, and we simply got tired of cleaning the board so frequently.

Since couple users contacted me and complained about it, I just enabled 
registration of new users on bb.linuxsampler.org again, however I applied more 
tight policies than before, most notably:

	1. New user registrations are approved by moderators.

	2. Email address and IP are automatically checked against known spam 
	   activity.

	3. Only 1 post per 30 minutes allowed (applies to *all* users).

	4. There are some additional restrictions for "Newbie" users, that is 
	   users which have not exceeded a post count of 30 yet, i.e. they 
	   can't upload files, can't send private messages, etc.

I hope those policy changes are fine for most of the forum users, and that it 
will help to reduce the spam issues we had on the post board.

CU
Christian