"FORBIDDEN" from posting? What to do..., New Spam Filter Added By Host - June 2012 Options

[LS Support]

i've been having a few people with issues logging in or posting/replying to the forum. after a few weeks of searching for a reason why, i contacted my host today and they have added a new spam / banned word filter at the server level (which means i don't have direct control of the flagged words list).

if you receive an error when logging in or when posting that says the following, please look at your password/screen name/login name/post/reply and check to see if you have words that are potentially spammy (most of these are sexual or pharaceutical in nature, for example p*nis and pr*zac. i won't post the others here

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Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /forum/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at lightning-strike.com Port 80

if anyone runs into problems, just let me know and i will try to remedy them from this new feature. sorry for the hassles, for once it isn't me

p.s. if you post a word that winds up having miscellaneous symbols in it (like ## or ***) that means you have triggered the forum software's badwords list. this recently was fixed for c*ckatiel and c*ckerspaniel. if you see a word come up strange, let me know and i can determine if it's something we want to fix.

[Gretta's Mom]

Thanks - you're a genuis!!