A trick to send spammers to hell (or anywhere you want!)

[italcro]

Hi Everybody

MicroHellas, I am having a very similar problem to yours, and I have ONLY HALF SOLVED IT.

I have just purchased a VB4 Publishing Suite, and I haven't yet listed the forum's URL on Google or Yahoo, and already I have become a target for SPAMMERS AND PROFESSIONAL TIMEWASTERS, almost invariably with FAKE or INEXISTENT e-mail accounts or with e-mail accounts linked to Russian porn sites and almost invariably registering with weird or outright offensive names like SexPervert, TedBundyForever, LongLiveJeffreyDahmer, etc and then posting rubbish.

Upon advice from the VB customer service I have made the forum MODERATED in order to stop spammers and idiots from joining the forum.
However the other half of the problem which is still unsolved is the fact that I DON'T WANT the statistics to show the names of members who are still in the moderation queue and have not been approved yet by myself or another moderator.

Of course I have no desire to see my forum become a den for freaks or weirdoes, therefore, again, I don' t want anyone's name to appear on these Statistics until they have been fully approved.

Therefore can anyone please tell me, if at all possible, how to solve this
problem?

Kind regards

italcro