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From: Kerry Date: 08 Jun 2006 Time: 14:03:06 +1100 Remote Name: 60.226.181.89 Comments: Thanks 'e'. What I was thinking of doing was a combination of things so that I could keep the essential structure of the Board (esp the unrestricted anonymous access) much as it is. My initial thoughts are a three-pronged approach: [1.] Setting up a new board - so spammers won't initially know where it is. The old board would be left in place for reference but I would disable new postings. [2.] Requiring username/password access where these details on listed on the Home page -( but thus stopping automated (ie bot) access) - AND setting the password as the answer to a question that an Anaesthetist would find easy (but non-medical people wouldn't know without spending some time and effort). The question could be changed if they did work out the answer. This aspect of the solution makes use of the specialist knowledge of legitimate site users to exclude spammers without such knowledge. [3.] Remove any spam as soon as it was detected. (Hopefully not often, thus keeping my maintenance effort to a minimum). The effort involved for the spammer (for such short-term access) then is much increased so ultimately not worth their effort. The question could be something like: "The only non-dopolariser in current clinical use is ......? " (Now, use this name as the password). This is just an example. Of course sux....(etc) would be a bit long to type but you get the general idea. The question could be made a bit more cryptic (but still easy) to minimise the risk of a Google search easily finding a page with an answer. I'll explore this tonight when I get home. Any other ideas considered.