Hi, I recently joined this forum and my registration DID include an image verification stage so perhaps your suggestion has been acted upon.
I dont think asking for email addresses is a particular deterrent, most spammers change their address much to regularly for that to be effective.
The best way I know of dealing with spam on notice boards is to give all users a privilidge to mark a particular posting as being potential spam thereby alerting trusted users or
website hosting administrators an immediate alert that something that looks like spam has been added to the board and may require deletion.
On the subject of spam, does anyone know how to get MS outlook mail rules to spot an email that contains only an inlined picture? Spammers seem to be getting around antispam measures based only on text rules (ie delete mails containing the word ******) by using low quality images of the text message they want to broadcast. Outlook seems to be able to detect email that has a non-inlined attachement but the spammers are using inlined ones (ie picture appears automatically when you view the email), I would be happy to delete all messages containing an inline attachment since my real customers never send me messages like this.
Thanks in advance for any info
Jon