[hotcouponworld]

We get alot of spammers. Our spam filters are such that they have to list the state they are from. The first state we have listes is aspam - if we see people in the system with that state, we purge them.

Then we moderate the first post. Catch a lot of spammers that way too, so the garbage never hits the board.

We also had some of the privs set so that they can't post and such if they haven't activated their account through the email, but AOL had our emails blocked as spam so we were having to manually set those folks by hand - a total PITA. But the state code and the moderated first post help before people can post their crap on the site.

The other thing is that we don't let them have PM access until they've been a member a few days AND have posted to the general board several times. That way, they can't hit our members through the PMs.