TGForum EMail Change to Fight SPAM

Dear TGF eMail Subscriber,

We have discovered a problem with our eMail system that requires that we contact you at this time. For the past week or so someone has been using our eMail server's address to deliver tens of thousands of SPAM (electronic junk mail) messages.

We know that this is not one of our subscribers, but the only way to stop this person is to disable the ability to send messages through our eMail server. Otherwise, this can and likely will happen again. What this means to you depends upon how you have been using our new eMail service.

IF YOU ONLY COMPOSE AND SEND MESSAGES THROUGH OUR WEB PAGE, THIS CHANGE WILL NOT AFFECT YOU! We suspect that most of you won't be affected by this change. Again, using the web based interface at http://tgforum.com:8383/ to compose and send email messages will continue to work as it always has.

If you compose your messages with an eMail client program (such as Pegasus, Eudora, Outlook...) you will need to change the configuration so that the SMTP server is your local ISP instead of tgforum.com. We are currently updating our help pages to reflect this change for each of the client packages. Generally, your ISP's SMTP address is mail.yourISPname.com, sometimes it is just yourISPname.com. Please check with your ISP to get this information.

We apologize for any unconvience this may cause, but the SPAM industry uses other peoples equipment to distribute their clients messages and we are getting the black eye for it! Please rest assured that if we are able to track down who has been doing this we are going to complain long and loud!

Please contact Stef Matthews at stef@tgforum.com, if you have any questions or problems.

Sincerely,
Cindy, JoAnn, Jamie and Stef