Awhile back we had a problem with spambots registering new accounts (hundreds of registrations a day), so we disabled new user registration for awhile. Registration is now opened up again. Apologies to those who wished to register (and comment) and were unable to do so.
This site requires that you create an account if you wish to comment. Your first comment will be moderated, as will any comments including more than 2 hyperlinks. This, also, is to cut down on the spammers. After you’ve proven yourself to be a human being, and one who is actually interested in this site as this site (rather than as a place to hawk your bogus pharmaceutical deals), you’ll be able to comment and have the comments come through immediately.
-D & T
And, just that fast, 5 new spambots registered as users.
We’ve just added the “Stop Spammers” plugin, which checks against 3 databases of spammers and won’t let them register or comment on this site. Hopefully that will solve the problem.
Hope this does solve your problem. On my Yahoo blog I have this built in spam control. I can click and see what is sitting in the spam folder, if I forget I think they just delete out after awhile. That feature has been really effective catching most all the spam or even an e-mail that might be spam. Nan