who is...., concerning the recent private spam messages Options

[JackSteel]

Anyone know a muzrinkl ? i got a weird email from this forums from this person but don't even see the name listed in the membership.

[Robert]

It's actually a stupid way to fix the problem.
1) It requires every IPB forum on the planet to update to 2.3.6 even though the problem has existed in every version including 2.3.6 until a few days ago. IPB will be laughing all the way to the bank because they are using this as a way to force people to pay for fix even though a normal fix wouldn't require it.
2) The custom field or Captha option is also stupid because the fix shouldn't require extra user input from 99.9999% of users who DON"T use the PM system to flood everyone with spam.
3) Why base a fix on Captha when it was already bypassed a few months ago

They should have simply added the PM system to the same flood control which prevents to many searches or post per minute. Also any reasonable fix for the problem should have included an option to block new members from from sending PM's until a certain condition(s) had been meet according to options set by the forum admin.
Such as......
member for x number of days
x number of post

Any good fix should be invisible to normal users as possible.