Who ever did what ever to knock out the spam, thank you.  It seemed like we were under attack the last week or so, when I would log on, the first thing I would do is report spam.  What ever you did, (C_A?), thank you.

lol it's a temporary measure. To give us a bit of a breather.

Basically the current forum software is out of date (it's 6 years old) and the current generation of spam bots can now get round the registration security.

Also we have a LOT of traffic as a website, so we are standing out and attracting more than our fair share of spammers.

So until I can update the forum software and increase the security to the point where we're back to the usual levels of human registered spam accounts, I've suspended new member registration.

I'm still getting questions from internet users via email, and can register people if they ask for an account.

But to be honest after the last month or so when all the mods were giving up at least a solid hour a day  to do nothing but clear the increasing amounts of spam (I was doing nothing some days but logging in every half hour or so to clear spam - hell I was even doing it while working). We're kind of enjoying the peace lol

The guys are all volunteers, none of us get paid and the amount of effort they've put in recently is pretty phenomenal. The fact that you only thought it was getting bad in the last week bill, says a lot.

I knew you guys were deleting a lot of spam, I just didn't know how much.  I normally log on once a day, read the new posts, make a comment and then log off.  I would be online for 15 to 30 minutes or so.  Some days, when I would follow a thread or be trapped inside due to weather, I might log on three or four times, most of the time, you would have all the spam cleared out and I thought what I saw was the normal amount.  I knew you were deleting spam and were doing a good job, what I didn't know was how good a job you were doing.

C_A, the slayer of spammers.

We could have made a tournament!
Mauro.

Ehehehehehe 
Mauro.

God, now that I think about it, it was quite boring - to log in every half a hour or so and find up to 12, 15 spam messages... luckily we're a great team, we are #1 
Greetings,
Mauro.

Those wedding dresses did sound like a pretty good deal though.