Quote Originally Posted by Wildtim View Post
Don't you just wish you could spike those people Joe
I've always wished that there was no truly anonymous proxy feature on the internet... that way perps could be traced by the ISPs or some overseer entity. But that's not likely going to happen with the strong feelings about privacy and rights of speech that many of us endorse in the internet realm. So we've got to pay the price for the freedoms.

In thinking back, I believe the same name (Patricia) was used the last time. Probably a software spambot of sorts, although a human has to be involved to get through the filters we have in place, at least to register, and get started. Anyway, when the server crashed and the host restored back to 10/31 it erased "her" membership and ban. Fortunately, we have a throttle in place on PMs, emails, etc that prevents a user from generating them very fast (there's a required delay between successive submits). So, while it's annoying to the few that get them, we don't have the whole site inundated in a few seconds.