[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by charlene

I have been deleting posts/threads all morning. as I am deleting there are new ones posting..this is ridiculous...

Exactly

Yes Yes Yes Char I can see the problem you face especially well today because the spammers seem to have taken a shine today to corfid topics to which I am subscribed so I have in turn had to delete about 20-25 drivel filled emails from my inbox already.
I have just asked google
"how to stop spam on a forum"'
this produced lots of useful results
warning take an Ibroprufen first!!
One interesting website I found was:-
http://www.apromotionguide.com/stopping_phpbb_spam.html
Also worth a read is
http://spam-ip.com/how-to-block-forum-spam.php
ignore the summary
"Forum Spam Bots
Forum Spam Bots Suck. That's really all there is to it. They are so frustrating, and to this day there is no full proof method for blocking them. You can integrate a captcha of some form, or even a question like What is 2+4 and some advanced bots can still get through.
So all in all there is no full proof way to block forum spam. Let's look at a few of the more common and semi effective examples below."
There may well be no fool proof way either but at least others can provide you and Florian with few ideas