Hi BG,
I can't speak for anyone else here but if its a matter of finance, I would be willing to throw a few dollars your way if it meant properly setting up infrastructure to stop these spamming cock suckers impacting our forum/site.
I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one.
Maybe worth looking into?

Thanks for the offer. I'm afraid it would cost more than a few dollars to modify the programming to stop this. We had a thread some years ago where someone suggested that members could make donations to help with the site maintenance and hosting costs. It didn't raise much -- not worth the trouble really. I suspect that there aren't many here who would be willing to contribute. Alas...

Maybe when I get some free time, I can spend some time on it myself. -bg

Well, I'll throw in a few but if there's a way I or anyone else can just access the forum membership and delete spammers, I'd rather do that for ya. Could guaranty a spam sweep every 24 hours at least.

How much are we talking to modify the program? hundreds or thousands?

Thanks BG.
Just wanted to personally say you do a great job on a thankless task.

There may be an easy solution. Two of the spammers from this morning were from China and Russia. I found and set up a service that will block visitors to the website by country, and I set it up to block visitors from both of these countries. We'll see how it goes. I can easily block other countries if need be. -bg

Second that. Your spam elimination is more than adequate, bg. I'd even call it downright convenient but SHEEZE what a PITA it must be for you. I've used this forum an awful lot over the years. If there's ever anything I can do to help, please just let me know.

Thanks Rook! -bg

BTW, bg...any idea what this thing is? I see it at the lower right of my forum page. Never noticed that before.

Says, "PROTECTED AND ACCELERATED BY INCAPSULA" when you mouse over it. I presume this has something to do with you?

I was scared I had a virus for a minute.

That's the service that's keeping users from China and Russia out of our site. I don't see what you are describing from here. What browser are you using? -bg

Safari.

I see a small shield with something that looks like a blue wall on it in the lower right corner.

I see it too. Using chrome on android.

I don't see what you are describing from here. What browser are you using?

I am using Chrome, Windows 10, and the image Rook mention is the same thing I see:

I see it as well using the latest version of IE on Windows 8.1. As long as it protects us from Chinese and Russian spammers, I don't care.

Thanks, guys.

I see it once in a while with several browsers now.

It seems to be working. 85 visitors from China and Russia have been turned away in less than 24 hours. -bg

Top job BG...

* Last updated by: yannih on 12/27/2016 @ 12:55 PM *

Don't want to speak too soon but since setting up the new service, we haven't seen any unwanted emails coming through and I haven't had to delete tons of unwanted spam notifications from this forum.
Great improvement BG.
Thanks...

* Last updated by: yannih on 1/18/2017 @ 1:20 PM *

Yep i only saw one small spam attack since putting up the wall. Very nice!

Yup... and after posting that, there's 2 more spammers, but I agree this is WAY better then it was a couple of months ago.