Guys, I've disabled new signups for now as we've had a mass influx of spam posts this morning and I've deleted at least 4 that I can think of. One a day I can live with, but this many is doing my head in! Hope that's okay, I guess we need to look at our captcha settings or other countermeasures.
"Chav kids are like sand people. They're easily startled but they'll be back, and in greater numbers."
Make a "New users" sub-forum, in which they have to post to prove they're real before being given priveleges to post elsewhere. Works 60% of the time, ALL the time.
We're 3 minor revisions of phpBB behind as well. Not sure if any new anti-spam stuff has been added (I think it's been tweaked a bit), but that needs sorting probably. I know what a pain in the arse it is... Sorry.