Over the past fortnight or so a great number of new members have registered here. This is to be warmly welcomed, in general.
However many of these members have abused the open nature of our forum, and have immediately posted spam.
This has not only been a burden to Moderators and Admin, who have had to report or delete such posts, but it has had some unforeseen, and possibly unintended, consequences to others also.
I myself have had 2 email addresses blocked in the last 3 days, due to alleged 'unusual activity' in my accounts, which have been interpreted as my using them to spam others.
I have no reason to believe that I will be the only member to have suffered in this way.
As far as I can surmise, some email providers (such as GMX, Outlook, and probably some others), have taken exception to seeing spam sent out via automated forum notifications.
As I do not wish to take away all notifications from members, some of whom I know value and rely on them, I have sought to find the next best thing to safeguard members' email accounts from getting similarly blocked for 'unusual activities'.
To this end I have removed the facility to send out text within notification messages.
An early test of this indicates that this change is working for new posts.
Please message me if you find that this does not work as I have indicated above.
Thank you.
Admin.