> - need some sort of a spam robot protection function like we have now at the > bottom of each post (little blue box) or like the number system in this > example from a commercial site: > http://japan.axxs.org/5114

What you're talking about is a CAPTCHA - for various reasons, these are not as effective as they might seem to be. There are even ways of diverting the CAPTCHAs to *human spammers* on another website so that they read the digits/letters and can give a correct reading every 5 seconds or so and earn some money (or avoid being sent to a reeducation camp?) while not actually themselves going to the website that getsspammed...

There is already an antispam feature in place, based on a list of regular expressions from a centralised collection http://arch.thinkmo.de/cgi-bin/spam-merge plus a local list of expressions.

No antispam method is perfect. The present antispam method means that *sometimes* an anonymous user will type an innocent message and be considered as a spamme…

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