Is it me or is it broke??

I keep seeing new posts being made to Renard38's Jimny but whenever I click to read them it goes to Elgringo's post (50216) that was posted 2 weeks and 2 days ago and doesn't show any posts made after this point...

Yeah, same for me.
I thought I'd broken it!
Sorry if I did!

I also have a problem with Renard38 s new messages. It doesn't go to elgringo, it just doesn't display them.

it showed last night that the last post was 42 tears ago.

42 years ago that is.

Its broke,

The shear amount of spam has broken the database (its too large for the server to handle) This is causing strange effects.

I am manually purging the database

Martin

mlines wrote: Its broke,

The shear amount of spam has broken the database (its too large for the server to handle) This is causing strange effects.

I am manually purging the database

Martin

What a pita these people are, is it ok to 'report spam' via the 'report to moderator' button Martin?

Martin I'm not familiar with these forums but I do own/run a large forum that uses vbulletin. To prevent the spammers I created a Q and A that has to be completed at sign up. The question is: What's the 5th letter of colour. Members have to type in the correct letter to get through registration etc.

It has reduced automated spam by 90% +

Perhaps you could do the same? Most spammers are web bots, ie not real people. I also added an IP block by country via htaccess and whilst it isn't ideal you can use it to block the troublesome countries. IE China etc (no disrespect to Chinese members).

The spammers bypass the system. By calling the modules with the correct parameters the spambots get through the system.

The spam trap software works after messages have been posted and currently traps up to 100 posts a day, only a few get through. The bad news is that this activity is hitting the database.

Martin

If your using a linux server then IP block the offending countries via htaccess?

I realise it's a PITA but you could disable registration and ask people to email you for registration then do it manually?