RSS and user spam

[simonjng]

Hi - two questions... I can't believe these haven't been covered before but a search showed nil results so here goes!

1. RSS - can anyone recommend a tool (nil or low cost) that will allow the board to auto-create RSS feeds on a per thread/per category/entire board basis?

2. Like everyone (no doubt) I'm already attracting a fair few Viagra/Credit/Porn pushers... while the on-board spam filters are catching 90% of the posts they try to make, I don't really want 7user with names like "Che@p Viagr@ 0nline" being able to join... but I also don't want to add hurdles to genuine users by moderating all users and posts. Can other users suggest the best tools and happy mediums to deal with them?

Many thanks for all responses!

Cheers
Simon
http://www.MyAyOkay.com

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Have I posted in the wrong forum here? Apologies if so... perhaps it's more of a programming rather than general issue.

Simon