[olug] Misc. hardware.......... - dedicated list?

[Kevin]

I used to run a phpBB installation. Then someone sent out a bajillion
spams using a security hole in phpBB because I didn't have time to
constantly put in the latest patch, the latest versions, and check
that all the data transferred correctly, and occasionally regress when
things don't work right. And this was on an installation that didn't
really have the traffic for it. As soon as service was restored from
the 10-day or so outage, I deleted the entire directory. Needless to
say, I don't run phpBB anymore.

On 10/4/07, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> 1) spam spam spam -- especially with phpBB
> 2) security vulnerabilities -- especially with phpBB
> 3) sifting through taken stuff
> ...
>
> On Thursday 04 October 2007, Obi-Wan wrote:
> > What's wrong with setting up a forum of for sale / wanted stuff using
> > something like PHPBB?  Start a new thread for each group of stuff.
> > Lurkers don't need to subscribe -- just email the seller.  The seller
> > can update the thread when items are no longer available.  Items will
> > be archived indefinitely, which is good for hard-to-unload items.  It's
> > also searchable by Google for people who don't know to look directly
> > at this forum, or by PHPBB's internal search mechanism for people who
> > know to come here.
> >
> > I've been running PHPBB for my own forums at jedi.com
> > (http://forums.jedi.com) for over a year now.  It takes very little
> > resources, and is trivial to manage.  Heck, I could even create a forum for
> > this stuff on my existing site if you guys want -- or you could use my
> > existing "computer hardware" forum.  It doesn't get much traffic currently.
>
>
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