"Space is BIG, really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
Look on the bright side- when the spammer hordes come calling that's how you know this forum has hit the big time!
-Will
"Ships and sail proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space."
-- Johannes Kepler, 1609
They are an unfortunate nuisance that are hard to get rid of. Once possible solution would be to require all accounts to be authorized by an administrator, which would at least keep them from posting... though someone would still have to go in from time to time to prune out the junk accounts.
I can't remember what I did in the past to stem the tide of junk submissions... I may have to try and remember.
Administer the Turing test for any potential members!
"Space is BIG, really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."