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Strange...though, if I were you I'd go to this page on the Spamhaus website and type in your IP address in the "lookup IP address" field. The reason for this is that while you're probably not listed as a spammer, it may be that you're behind some form of blacklisted proxy on your ISP's side. If so, there's one thing you can do; change the "$checkspam['blocklist']" variable from "zen.spamhaus.org" over to one of the following:

- sbl.spamhaus.org (this is just the spammer blocklist)
- sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org (this includes open proxies, trojans and other exploits as well).

The one I used is the most restrictive one, so I suppose it could cause problem. I did not have problem reaching your registration page though, so it's not a problem with the DNS lookup itself...thankfully

If you'd like, you can try opening the registration page on one of my websites and see if you're getting blocked there as well.

Here's what I'm using to protect myself against a lot of the spammers out there. It's a very simplified version of one of my first PunBB mods, and it works well for me I've tried to comment the code as best I can to explain what it does...

Open register.php, and find on line 27:

require PUN_ROOT.'include/common.php';

Add after:

/***************************
   START SPAM PROTECTION
***************************/

// Address of the blocklist server
$checkspam['blocklist'] = 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org';

// Build the url to check (reverse DNS query). If you want to test if it works on
// your server, replace the "get_remote_address()" part with the following: '127.0.0.2'
$checkspam['Reverse DNS'] = implode( '.', array_reverse( explode( '.', get_remote_address() ) ) ) . '.' . $checkspam['blocklist'];

// Do the actual lookup. If the users IP is listed in the blocklist, we will be given just an IP back from the queried server.
// If the user is *not* listed as a spammer, the result we get back from the server will be the same string as we sent.
if( $checkspam['Reverse DNS'] != gethostbyname($checkspam['Reverse DNS']) ) {
    
    message('Unfortunately, it would appear that your current IP address is listed in one of the anti-spam databases we queried.
            Because of this, you will not be able to register a new account at this point in time. If you believe this to
            be a mistake, we urge you to read the FAQ over at <a href="http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/index.lasso">The Spamhaus Project</a>
            for more details, including actions you can take to resolve this issue.',true);
}

/****************************
   END OF SPAM PROTECTION
****************************/

Save & upload.

If you allow anonymous posts on your forum, if would be a good idea to do the same with post.php (line numbers should be the same).

EDIT: Changed blocklist to a slightly less strict one as it would appear some legitimate users, like quaker, encountered problems with the original one...and we don't want that, now do we

Just thought I'd let you know that E is no longer a beta product A lot of improvements have been done over these last few builds, and I'm really happy with it so far...

ALT+H you mean? Yes, I am aware of that, and it's actually part of why I used it. The lang array tooltip shortcut is only available within the source.php string.quoted, string.quoted.single.php, string.quoted.double.php scopes, so I don't really think it will conflict (well, I suppose in theory it could in the string.quoted.double.php scope). It could possibly cause some confusion though, so I'll change it if you think it'll help

Strange...I've experienced many different minor and major problems over the various releases since I started using it, but that's one I've never encountered (thankfully). Have you reported it to Alexander over at the E forums?

In general, you would be best served to use in on *all* user-submited data before displaying the page(s).

Just the footer? If so:

    .pun div#brdfooter a:link, .pun div#brdfooter a:visited { text-decoration: underline }

Just played around with the functions file and here's what you can do to be able to use BBCode in the ban messages.

1. Open ./include/functions.php and find on line 191

    $bans_altered = false;

2. Add after:

    require PUN_ROOT.'include/parser.php';

3. Find on line 206

            message($lang_common['Ban message'].' '.(($cur_ban['expire'] != '') ? $lang_common['Ban message 2'].' '.strtolower(format_time($cur_ban['expire'], true)).'. ' : '').(($cur_ban['message'] != '') ? $lang_common['Ban message 3'].'<br /><br /><strong>'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_ban['message']).'</strong><br /><br />' : '<br /><br />').$lang_common['Ban message 4'].' <a href="mailto:'.$pun_config['o_admin_email'].'">'.$pun_config['o_admin_email'].'</a>.', true);

4. Replace with

            message($lang_common['Ban message'].' '.(($cur_ban['expire'] != '') ? $lang_common['Ban message 2'].' '.strtolower(format_time($cur_ban['expire'], true)).'. ' : '').(($cur_ban['message'] != '') ? $lang_common['Ban message 3'].'</p>'.parse_message($cur_ban['message'], false).'<p>' : '<br /><br />').$lang_common['Ban message 4'].' <a href="mailto:'.$pun_config['o_admin_email'].'">'.$pun_config['o_admin_email'].'</a>.', true);

5. Find on line 220

                    message($lang_common['Ban message'].' '.(($cur_ban['expire'] != '') ? $lang_common['Ban message 2'].' '.strtolower(format_time($cur_ban['expire'], true)).'. ' : '').(($cur_ban['message'] != '') ? $lang_common['Ban message 3'].'<br /><br /><strong>'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_ban['message']).'</strong><br /><br />' : '<br /><br />').$lang_common['Ban message 4'].' <a href="mailto:'.$pun_config['o_admin_email'].'">'.$pun_config['o_admin_email'].'</a>.', true);

6. Replace with

                    message($lang_common['Ban message'].' '.(($cur_ban['expire'] != '') ? $lang_common['Ban message 2'].' '.strtolower(format_time($cur_ban['expire'], true)).'. ' : '').(($cur_ban['message'] != '') ? $lang_common['Ban message 3'].'</p>'.parse_message($cur_ban['message'], false).'<p>' : '<br /><br />').$lang_common['Ban message 4'].' <a href="mailto:'.$pun_config['o_admin_email'].'">'.$pun_config['o_admin_email'].'</a>.', true);

7. Save & upload

Hope this helps

EDIT: Almost forgot, if you want to use HTML instead of BBCode, just replace pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_ban['message']) with $cur_ban['message'] on line 206 & 220 instead of following the steps listed above.

A few observations and suggestions:
- The blue colours used for the links, and the green used for usernames are quite hard on the eyes. Just not enough contrast.
- You should consider increasing the height of the background image used in the table headers, as if you increase the text size in your browser it doesn't cover the entire block.
- Adding a slight background texture to the body might make it look better, as the "glass" effects used for the headers stands out a bit much in comparison to the more minimalist look you seem to be aiming for with the rest of the page.
- As already mentioned, a logo might be a good idea, but just adding your sites name in a larger font there would make it look a bit less empty.

Other than that, I kinda like it

I've seen many amazing sites done with Expression Engine. It comes in both free and paid versions, so it couldn't hurt checking it out.