Stop PM SPAM

[GreedyCapitalist]

My board has had several PM spam broadcasts recently. Last night, a member registered and sent 540 emails every to a single member at a time every few minutes. I looked through the board options, but I don't see any way to stop or detect this other than by disabling PM's entirely. Presumably, he used a script of some kind, so we can expect much more of this. The spammers skip the moderators and admins, so we don't find out until someone complains.

[Quillz]

Well, it's hard to physically prevent someone from sending spam via PMs, but couldn't you just have all new members go into a user group that can't send PMs? Generally, most spammers post few, if any, messages if they intend to spam via PM.

[C_ind]

Last night, a member registered and sent 540 emails

Do you mean PMs or emails? For emails, there's a user group setting that looks like this:

Can email members from the board? Yes/No . Only allow X emails in a 24hr period ...and only allow 1 email every Y minutes.

For PMs, you can only disable entirely. There should of course have been a similar kind of setting to the one there is for emails in order to combat spam.