Quote - 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.

I don't dispute your figures, but I've never seen this on sites such as CG Talk, for example, and I'm there more frequently than here nowadays. Which doesn't mean it doesn't happen, just that I haven't seen it, and that's a pretty high profile site. Not on C4D Cafe either, probably the world's largest C4D site.

In any case I stand by my comment: while you can't prevent small-scale spamming, it should be possible to prevent these mass spams like the latest one, where it seems as if every forum may have been spammed, leading to a very large number of messages being posted in presumably a very short time. A simple count of posts-per-day with an automatic block would stop it before it got too far.

Steve