A tip for poeple having trouble with spammers

start executing spammers. that will stop it pretty quick.

No but  it <censored> stops <censored> from getting their <censored> word across easily.

And when it comes down to it, if we can show them they are wasting their time they will move on to somewhere or something easier to spam.

P.S. Dr.Jeckyl I agree they should get the death penalty, or at least a year in jail for every person they have bothered.

They use bots though, so they're not really wasting any time

You mean have a moderation queue?
I just saw this, not sure how good it is:
http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=1884

And 1.3 will have a moderation queue built in

They already do that with my email, so I guess it's only a matter of time before such a thing becomes widespread on forums too, unless they're specifically trying to bump their search rank for a specific keyword (which in many instances is probably the case).

Wouldn't the Akismet spam extension mod work for this?

I just wrote a small piece of code that helps against spammers who promote lists of URLs (like they mostly do).

Open post.php
Go to somewhere around line 156 (My board is a bit moodified...)
Above "// Validate BBCode syntax" enter

    preg_match_all("|http\://|", $message, $match);
    if(count($match[0]) > 2)    {
        $errors[] = $lang_post['Spam message'];
       }

And in your lang/<LANG>/post.php enter somewhere in the $lang_post-Array

'Spam message'        =>    'This appears to be spam.',

Works for me....
however, it means that  users are not allowed to post more than two URLs.
Well, you can change the number but then it  makes less sense.

An URL count is included in my spam protection mod. You can just take that one

Because it's far, far from perfect =P

I'm willing to improve it tho