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Old 4th June 2011
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Originally Posted by Conformal View Post
not sure what the history of this site is but i recall posting on a forum at bsdforums.org back in the day. wtf happened to that site?
There are a number of threads in the archives which discuss BSDForums.org. One being the following:

http://www.daemonforums.org/showthre...ight=bsdforums

In short, the owner of the site hadn't visited the site for its last two years of existence, & he had not given full rights to the appointed Administrators there authority to ban spammers. All that could be done is move spam to a section unseen by the public. The amount & frequency of the spam grew to the point where the Administrators couldn't deal with it fast enough, so the regulars decided to start a new site. DaemonForums is the result.

Several months after DaemonForums started, BSDForums was taken down. Finding legitimate threads amidst the spam was becoming impossible.
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