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But why not an option to allow an administrator to choose the text of the question, and the text of the answer? It can be a good "basic" anti-spam function.

At the beginning, i used punbb without control (a guest can post): after 1 year, it became impossible.
Then registering was mandatory. After some time, there were spambot registering. And now, spam messages (links, photos...)
Now the e-mail is mandatory : now some spambot registering, but not yet message. For how many time?

Nowadays, one or several simple anti-spam functions (to avoid spam message and spambot registering) should be mandatory. They should be provided by default with the punbb package, but they should be activated or deactivated, in order to replace them by a mod.
It's not really a bug, but it is a missing function, for sure.

I'm not a specialist, but I think there are several kinds of trouble in a forum :
I. spam posts from non registered users (if guests are allowed)
II. bot registering
III. Undesirable posts from registered user
Imho, III is usually not spam in small forums, and if points I and II are checked, can remain a moderator job. Nevertheless, especially for larger forums, preliminary automatic control can be useful too.

Possible solutions to avoid I. (non registered user post, or for III, user with a number of post < N):
I.1 - IP control (blacklisted IP or domain)
I.2 - Post analysis :
   a  page error if a URL is included (very good idea, but, like keyword filter, this solution may be cicumvented)
   b  Variant 1 : true BBcode URL plus some URL keywords or patterns (http, www, .com, .net, yyy.zz, URL with included spaces...)
   c Variant 2 : post spam analysis (like mail)
I.3 - "Captcha" on each post (from non registered user)
   a Something ultra-simple, like "copy [eight][one]: [.][.]" or "YES: O NO: O NO: O"
   b Mathematical one (23 + 9 : [..])
   c Image use (mmm, not very accessible)
   d other...
I.4 - Moderation (post queing)
   a by all administrator & moderators (whatever forum it is)
   b by each user with more than N mail (N=100)

I.2 and I.3, easy to implement, could be included in punbb pack. Idea:
--- I.2 (typically b) always activated in punbb.
--- I.3 (typically a) activated on request, if/when I.2 become fruitless  (administration parameter)
--- I.4 as an extension (a and/or b)

Possible solutions to avoid II (bot registering)
II.1 - IP control (blacklisted IP or domain) - not suffisant
II.2 - User name and address analysis (mode difficult than for post)
II.3 - Captcha, cf I.3
II.4 - moderation (registration queing), cf I.4
II.5 - Automatic deletion if no post during N days after registering)

Idea:
--- II.3 as a punbb option (adiministration parameter)
--- II.5 as a punbb option (adiministration parameter) [with or without previous option]
--- II.4 as an extension

This one can be a good choice: :D:D

It's a very, very, very, very useful work.
One little remark: for the moment, the list is rather short, but if the list grows, another list with mods grouped by type of mods/project should be useful (in addition with current alphabetical list). Something like the following; of course this list is only an example:

+ New functions
Calendar - gizzmo [D]
PunDokuWiki - Connorhd [D]
PBB Chatbox - pokemon_jojo [D]
Private Messaging System - Connorhd [D]

+ Index improvement
Online Today - Mark
Icon Topic - Mark [D]

+ Post improvement
Easy BBCode - Rickard
Modern BBcode - Modern BBcode [D]

+ Rate
Rate Topic - Kha0sK1d [D]
Reputation System - hcs [D]

It could be very useful for someone who doesn't know the mods, but know what kind of function he is searching for.
Whis this aim, I prefer to group "screenshot only" and "demos", with a [D] (or an icon) to show that a demo exist.

But as it is, it's a very great job: we can know exactly the mod and its limits... Thanks!

Maybe the width of the postleft div in base.css?

DIV.postleft, DIV.postfootleft {
    FLOAT:left;
    WIDTH: 18em;
    OVERFLOW: hidden
}
--> try a width of 13em or 12em

(can be erroneous: it's the first time I look into the punbb css files)

I did some search without results, but maybe not with an adequate pattern. It seems to me very strange to be the first person to ask something like this. Is the need to share topic so seldom and fancy? Another need can be for example to have the same sticky message in several forums.

Thanks for the quick answer,

too bad

Ok, I see the 'alt' attribute of the img; I'm using firefox in place of IE since some weeks, and as ff doesn't display a red cross before the alt text, I didn't understand what exactly is this displayed url.

So the question is now a little bit different: why always a timeout on my side with punbb, and never a timeout without it?

>> [Edit] No, sorry, if the test html file is on my computer, it works, if the test html file is on my provider's server, it doesn't work. Not a punbb troubleshooting

It should be convenient to do such a substitution (before displaying the post content, or imho better before adding it in base):

Espace insécable devant ; : ! ?  (Non-breakable space before ...)

$content = eregi_replace("([ ]*)([?!:;]{1})", " \\2", $content);  http://www.phpinfo.net/regex/

I don't know how is processed exactly BB code, but: is it possible to imagine using a BB code like "[ ]" (space between [ and ]), substituted by   ?