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Offline mstachoTopic starter

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I'm a spammer?
« on: July 23, 2011, 07:33:10 AM »
Hi all,

when I logged in today, it said "Sorry mstacho, but you cannot post new messages...for spamming the forum"...Did I spam?  If so, how? Just let me know and I won't do it again  ???  Otherwise I'm keen on it being a computer error :-P It seemed to go away in about an hour...

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Re: I'm a spammer?
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2011, 12:06:26 PM »
I looked into it . . . your IP addresses seems to be extremely common among SoR members (waltr, corrado33, Razor Concepts). Odd that you guys would have had the exact same address . . .

Your IP was once shared by a recent spammer on SoR, 173.245.55.232 (yet another user). I'm guessing it went away when your computer changed IPs.

If you, or anyone else, has this problem and cannot change IPs, just email me.
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Re: I'm a spammer?
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2011, 05:47:23 PM »
I have a dynamic IP.  I'm from Pennsylvania, so maybe waltr and razor are somewhere near?
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Re: I'm a spammer?
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2011, 09:36:59 AM »
I'm also in PA, near Philly and use Verizon for internet.
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Re: I'm a spammer?
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2011, 04:49:59 PM »
I'm in Toronto, Canada...but I was on an open wireless connection when I posted yesterday, so maybe it was someone on that connection.

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Re: I'm a spammer?
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2011, 05:37:31 PM »
Quote from: waltr on July 24, 2011, 09:36:59 AM
I'm also in PA, near Philly and use Verizon for internet.

I'm in western PA, near Pittsburgh and use consolidated communications. 

So, that's out I guess.   ??? ???

That's weird that we've all had the same or similar IPs at one point. 
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