[Lionel]

Battling spam is not a "set it and forget it" issue. It requires continuing vigilance and varying the tools over time as spammers adapt their own weapons to current defenses.

I agree with that. When they catch up with my mod, Kevin's mod kicks in and I simply adjust my mod with a new vbotions name for that specific required custom field. As far as IP is concerned I get the country code from a 2 lines function. If that were to return nothing then it still stops it. But so far it has always returned a country code

bottom line I am down from 150 spams daily to 0 -2 and I am happy with that. Since I stopped China, back to 0

If the majority of vb users were using good tools that would certainly discourage spammers