Quote -  

As it is, this site appears to be remarkably vulnerable to these mass spam attacks.

 

your kidding right?  lets see. how many spammers do you seein a week right now on this site.

now. take that number and look over the history of the site.

erm. ok.. thats 1 this week. over the history of the site... erm... less than 100? in 11 years...?

 

vunerable? far from it! this site is actually one of the best for NOT having spam.  I can show you sites that get 10-50 spambots a day attacking.. and they are not as high profile as RO is.