speaking of Spam... go Wikipedia!

[zeebs]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29 ... ientology/

[krenee]

spammer, spammer go away,
but don't come again another day -
'cause WE DON'T WANNA PLAY!!!!!!!

[JenW]

A girls gotta sleep. It was all clear when I went to bed, and we got hit pretty hard lats night with the spammers.

I think I got most of it. I will check again later. "Take me out to the ballgame." We have two kids with games at different parks. I will return later.

[karen]

Ugh! I think spammers should be forced to take all the drugs they try to sell. I'll check our mod admin stuff there may be something in there we can do to stop them.

[egerandi]

Have you considered captcha? Spammers usually automate things, and they can't get past captcha or something similar. I don't know what exactly are you using for the forum, but there should be some sort of feature/plug-in you could add to restrict interaction to 'humans'.

[karen]

We have captcha for new accounts! I've been playing with a few things, but if you could all do me a favor and not respond to the SPAM posts it makes my job a bit easier- fewer things to delete.

[JenW]

Wohooo! I did finally figure out how to delete an entire thread in this last attack.........but let's not give the spammers any attention. O-kay!

[Xarata]

booooooo that. way to be annoying. geez

[Cupcake]

Aye. I think they're just after your page rank and the fact you have the search engine bots crawling here so regularly picking up new info. Coat-tailing your success, in other words.

Captcha isn't enough, these posts are put in manually. Some forums come with the ability to manually moderate all post from new members, usually the first 5 posts of so, for this specific reason. I know it'd seem off-putting to legit new members, but it's widespread practice enough that people would be familiar with it and understand. That means that when someone spams with a new account, Jen or Karen would manually view and authorise publication of the post before it appears. Stops the problem dead in it's tracks.

All that "please email to get us to stop" is nonsense. If they didn't know it's unwelcome, asking nicely isn't going to make a difference.

[zeebs]

actually, when you email, they start spamming your email account.

and sorry for replying... I just kind of enjoy doing so. I won't do so anymore per your request.