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My personal experience is that as long as spammers don't target you specifically, any forum can be made spam-free by somewhat modifying the default code. I don't even remember the last time I had to delete spam from one of my forums, and I have yet to delete the first spam from the other one (both forums are PunBB, but I had similar results with PhpBB).

I did it the other way around - I replaced all PunBB code that queries its users table or deals with user authentication to instead use the code of our CMS. Even made an extension out of it, although that extension needs heavy modification for other CMS's. Search the forums here, I posted it somewhere.

That's pretty much what I had in mind, yes. I would check that database to make sure the password matches, though.

Personally, I would first move the forum to the new server, then (after I've checked that the forum works fine) upgrade it.

You can encrypt everything, with a lot of work, but it will be useless - the webhost will always be able to access the original data. If you want to protect your data from your webhost, you need to host your website yourself, from a computer nobody else can physically access.

Never had a problem with PunBB's stability.

I don't know. It depends on how similar the boards are. I know that phpBB is very easy to migrate to PunBB, provided that you know enough MySQL. I believe there is no automatic tool to migrate your board to PunBB.

Why it is useless and how to do it:
http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/125664/#p125664

Because I am an idiot. Link fixed.

The same could be done for other files, with the right check. The principle is always the same:

1) Find the file which you want to modify
2) Find the appropriate hook
3) Modify that hook in your extension

That's a rather liberal translation of "You may need to implement a few more hooks (I didn't actually check what's needed to be done to work with hashed IP addresses)"

Because it:
1) has some drawbacks (e.g. impossible to filter networks)
2) leads users into false sense of security

No.

You can ask, but that's about it - you are certainly not entitled to get an answer.

Also, consider this: you are making lots of requests without giving anything in return and without even trying to find the solution yourself. Why should anyone want to help you?

It might be faster, but also more difficult to maintain.

Activate the pun_bbcode extension in the administration.