Seems that we've now had a second wave of mail spam on the site. My apologies for these scoundrels. I managed to come up with a way to minimize or eliminate it though.

Go to the 'Edit My Profile' page and you will find a new checkbox that allows you to specify whether or not you will accept mail from folks that aren't your friend. 

Check the box and save it - and the spam will go away. Unless of course you have added a spammer to your 'My Friends' list.

You don't have to be mutual friends for this feature to work. It will accept mail from anybody whom you have claimed is a friend; regardless of whether they have reciprocated.

The other fine print is that the system admin (me) can still send you mail even if I'm not your friend. But I'm not going to send you spam. If you don't want any mail at all, go to the Features page and turn off the ability to read and/or send mail.  

 

 

Apologies to those who arrived here after getting a message that they've got mail. It was junk. I tracked all the offending junk and got rid of it. The account in question that sent the junk has been terminated.