[Joeaksa]

I ban at least 10 users every day. One of the BBS's I run is for antique airplanes and the damm spammers found it shortly after the Google bots did and we get at least 10 people daily trying to sell viagra, hair transplants and the like. They cannot post without being approved by me or one of the Mods, but they register and try to post, which clogs up the system.

Takes about 20 seconds a person but still gets tiring. The new thing is a robot that registers users on forums but instead of registering one person, it puts in 5-10,000 new members in one slug, usually late at night so the Admin does not catch on to what is happening until they are deluged.

We have now instituted rules that you cannot sign up any members faster than 1 every 2 minutes from a specific IP address. The robots do it in 20 seconds, so this stops them in their tracks. Not to worry, they will write new software and be back...

Joe A