Although I am no web guy, this Spam Bot stuff puts all those who use this forum at risk. These spam bots use a single sign in name and it seems to me that they could be stopped by the program requiring first and last names. Obviously it doesn't now and although the instructions clearly state that is required, many people just blow that off and believe that is not serious. So, if we had first and last names required before the program would let them in , this kind of spamming would cease. Also, we could do like other sites do, and require a person to request in and type in a random code. That's exactly how these other sites protect themselves. There is apparently money in data mining and we are being data mined.
If a person is concerned about them being known for participating in high end gun collecting, information that can be gathered through this site tells others of their participation. Kind of wonder whether the whole forum member list is now on somebody's else's list.
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