many thanks! Nice to know that other people care about keeping the form spam-free!
We already have 3 extra layers of spam filtering - one that does pretty much the same as "stopforumspam" by comparing all the membership applications with a spammers database, and automatically nuking anyone "on zer list", "Recapcha" which makes the applicant type some obscured text/numbers, and last but not least some "puzzles" that every applicant has to get through.........
This has dropped the number of applications we get from bots from hundreds every day to perhaps one or two spammers (which I suspect must be manual entries), and then there's the moderators as the "last line of defence" - we can do an "ip search", if that comes up clean we're left with the "duck test" ( "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands") - and we may well pull the "nuke" lever - if it gets through that lot, once in a while someone WILL get in and post spam (as one did this morning).....
SO, we're really grateful for those of you smart enough to spot spam and report it to us - we try to remove it asap!
To give you an idea of what we're up against, I received four applications this morning (that had leapt all of the hurdles), one pretty obviously kosher, one "dubious" Gmail email address, clean ip search, but I still nuked it as it failed the duck test - then the "crafty" ones - from what one the face of it looked like a straight concern to do with MCS registration and installers (and used the site name as username and email), and one from what looked like a straight punter -
who shared the same ip address 
...... Went to the "mcs" site, and found it was a quite flash "come to us for MCS quotes" site, which upon further examination was full of cr*p, and just there to try to fool mug punters into using them to place business (KERRRRching!) - so we had a large double nuking there!........
