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I thought that this was not possible, but it obviously is possible. Clicking on this persons "avatar" or screen name takes me to the Site Area Temporarily Unavailable notice,
http://www.adobe.com/special/message.html
In my opinion, email addresses and URLs should not be accepted as screen names and/or avatars. If they are, I would suggest making them automatically rejected.
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I'll ask John C to tackle this when he returns from vacation.
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Thank you, Terri. It's comforting to know that there is someone who is at least paying attention.
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This is a very interesting thread, given you folks have had a member here since June 1st, 2009 that is now using a domain name as a User ID. I write "now" because I have no idea if the member changed (or could do so) the User ID after having gone through the registration process.
http://forums.adobe.com/people/mytaxsite.co.uk
There are a lot of people that spend a lot of time trying to educate website administrators how to recognize and curb spamming on their sites and I stumble onto it happening right here on a company's site I would have assumed was well aware of the extensive efforts to control spamming. It's a difficult uphill battle.
Has this company given up? Give in to one spammer and there's no way to stop the others. What a shame.
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All this talk makes me want to spam the forum myself.
-Noel
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Screen names, or display names, are created in the Adobe.com profile, and there seem to be no restrictions over there.
A slash in the display name will break various things here on the forum side, but it seems that there is nothing John C. can do about it.
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Well, more than two months later, it would seem that there is nobody that can do anything about this. I am beginnig to think that there is nobody in charge of these forums.