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5,800 Deleted Messages? SPAM Attack!!
In Response To: Re: How Shall We Celebrate the 40,000th Message on This Foru ()

The 5,800 messages that are included in the URL addresses / file names, but not in the count of "displayed" messages, are primarily the messages that were posted during a massive SPAM attack, in May 2008. Those messages were deleted very quickly, and while thay received file names and count as having been posted, they are no longer displayed. Other than these SPAM messages, we have deleted very few messages over the years.

But something good came out of that SPAM experience -- we upgraded the forum software (that was getting old) and met Rainer in the process.

Jeff

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: My photos are ready...

: But at the top of the page i read:

: 394 of 34,147 Messages Displayed

: Do we also consider 5,800 deleted messages?

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