anti-spam new member login?

[Nathan Ross]

I'm not even sure that al these spammers work as bots?

I suspect some of them must be - the ones that post dozens of new ads at the same time. Others are probably people - and while we might feel sorry for the poor drones sitting in spamming centres somewhere endlessly logging in to random websites, we shouldn't make their job any easier! A brief check (and I remember your suggestion, Robert, of a 'Roman history quiz'!) might thin out the spammage a bit. Who knows, in time RAT might drop off the circulating list of 'easily accessible sites'...

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Is it possibly a good idea not to open the posts at all, but to report them to moderators by opening the member page and reporting that?