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Just a quick note tonight – in the last couple of weeks we did a couple of adjustments on DFT Forum, in case you thought it looked a little different.

First, we migrated it from one server to the other (hopefully transparent to you, valued participant), then updated the theme to match DFT Digest. Then, I upgraded the forum software to the most recent, supported version. I think that actually solved a recent problem with spammy new registrations. I think I only lost one post in this transition (sorry).

Maintaining DFT Digest and DFT Forum is not that much work, but it’s not zero. Just this last week, we moved the DFT Forum from Siyad’s ISP to my server, and since then it seems like the spambots have found us. We’re getting a few new obviously bogus user registrations per day, and looking them up and deleting them is the kind of maintenance work I could do without. But read on…

I was feeling so popular!  I was getting new register blog readers every day… Then I started noticing the disproportionate number of new users coming from the same couple of Russian sounding domains… some with really cryptic [...]