ADMIN - Contact ALL Current Advertisers

[oldengine]

Hopefully there's a way to contact all advertisers - either through the ADMIN panel or to gather up their email addresses through phpMyadmin.

All I need is the email addresses of all current advertisers so I can issue a warning bulletin after a SCAMMER gets access to the classifieds system.

I have banned the current scammer and firewalled his IP range, but inside the time of 5:00AM to 6:12AM, he has left me with a mess, having contacted over 40 of my advertisers. My users are gullible and easily dumped on by these scammers, so I do make an attempt to contact them personally with a warning message.

There must be an easier way than doing it one by one.

[Chuck S]

well maybe you could write some script for that depending on your integration etc. What integration you have?

[oldengine]

I'm using the vBulletin user base, but from within vBulletin which has the admin utilities "Send Email to Users" and "Generate Mailing List" there is no way to flag which users have classified ads.

In PhotoPost Classifieds, we have the "Member List" of active advertisers, but there is no way to gather their email addresses.

This should be a Classifieds Admin function.

[Chuck S]

Classifieds has the same feature of emailing users as vb but its only shown to standalone classifieds users since when you have a forum integration all user management is given to the forum since the users do not exist in classifieds. There is no user manipulation in a forum integration since they exist elsewhere