Marketing messages via the forum - what to do!
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:43 am
Hello,
Over the last couple of days we have been alerted to a couple of forum users who have been using the forum's internal emailing system to send 'marketing’ emails about a certain company's 'audiobooks' to other users. Those two users have now been banned, of course!
But we wanted to let you know about this, in case you also received one of these marketing emails (which are routed to you via the board), and to let you know how to turn off the preference in your control panel, if you wish, that prevents other users being able to send emails to you.
Other registered users can only send you an email via the forum if your profile setting “Users can contact me by email” is set to “Yes”. So if you want to switch that to "No", then do this:
1. Log in, and at the top right hand corner where your username appears, in the drop-down menu, choose ‘User Control Panel’.
2. Under 'Board preferences' > go to the option 'Users can contact me by email' > set that to 'No' and click submit.
That means that no one other than Cat Chat admins can contact you via the board.
If you yourself, receive a marketing email in this way, please feel free to forward it to our Admins, so that we can make sure there aren't any more rogue users that we need to ban (!). Then delete it, certainly don't click on any links in their email, and then if you wish, change your board preference as above, so that you don't get emails that way in future.
KEEP SAFE • STAY WELL • FUSS YOUR CATS!!
Over the last couple of days we have been alerted to a couple of forum users who have been using the forum's internal emailing system to send 'marketing’ emails about a certain company's 'audiobooks' to other users. Those two users have now been banned, of course!
But we wanted to let you know about this, in case you also received one of these marketing emails (which are routed to you via the board), and to let you know how to turn off the preference in your control panel, if you wish, that prevents other users being able to send emails to you.
Other registered users can only send you an email via the forum if your profile setting “Users can contact me by email” is set to “Yes”. So if you want to switch that to "No", then do this:
1. Log in, and at the top right hand corner where your username appears, in the drop-down menu, choose ‘User Control Panel’.
2. Under 'Board preferences' > go to the option 'Users can contact me by email' > set that to 'No' and click submit.
That means that no one other than Cat Chat admins can contact you via the board.
If you yourself, receive a marketing email in this way, please feel free to forward it to our Admins, so that we can make sure there aren't any more rogue users that we need to ban (!). Then delete it, certainly don't click on any links in their email, and then if you wish, change your board preference as above, so that you don't get emails that way in future.
KEEP SAFE • STAY WELL • FUSS YOUR CATS!!