Post #228997 by Humuhumu on Thu, Apr 27, 2006 12:08 PM

Aha! Sure enough, this post was made by Futura Girl in the Lotta Livin' Announcements section:

http://www.lottaliving.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=5336

Post subject: About the "YOU HAVE BEEN BANNED" notices

Over the past year we have had a number of spammers coming into the forum through so called "free email" accounts like yahoo and hotmail.

Removing these posts to keep the forum friendly and PG rated is a very time consuming effort. If I was getting paid to run this forum, I'd sit here all day and delete the spam that comes through, but I'm not, so we are left with very few alternatives.

After conferring with a few other boards and how they deal with this problem, we have opted to no longer allow yahoo or hotmail accounts to register on Lotta Living.

If you have already registered with a hotmail or yahoo account, you will be able to continue posting, but if you are new and trying to get on, please use a paid email account to register, like a work email address or aol.com or earthlink.net, etc.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes our members and sorry that some of you are getting singled out for the bad behavior of random people. But this seems to be our only recourse.

Best,
Futura Girl
Your Lotta Living Hostess