I have been getting a huge deluge of SPAM on the discussion board.  Today I spent probably over an hour deleting SPAM accounts.  Sometimes it isn’t always obvious what is a SPAM account since they have managed to get into Gmail/Hotmail/etc.  I went through and looked up each accounts IP address and if the country of origin was non-USA I deleted the account.  If by some chance someone here registered whilst out of the country please do accept my apologies and re-register.

To combat new SPAM accounts I have altered the registration process to include a couple new required fields.  These must be answered or the account will be blocked.  If this isn’t sufficient to keep out the spammers I will have to increase security further.

Please note that SPAM accounts do not in any way represent a breach in security.  The steps I undertake here should deflect SPAM bots but we can’t ever eradicate human based SPAM automatically.  So if you suspect any accounts are being used inappropriately or if you notice any posts that appear to be SPAM please contact me.

If anyone wishes to become a board moderator let me know.  I could use a hand keeping an eye on things.