Originally Posted by
PTravel
I'm pretty sure this isn't a bot, though I suppose it might be. The moron returned a couple of nights ago with a slightly altered ID but, since I monitor the board fairly closely, I just banned him again and deleted all of his posts (took 10 seconds or so). I'm busy this week, but when I get some time I'll look into the various additional modules available of phpbb.
Still sounds like a bot. Once a bot finds positive hit, it will keep trying over and over. Usually coming from a range of IP's. Bot programmers have gotten fairly sophisticated and with widely used bulletin board software packages like phpBB, vBulletin and others, bots just crawl the web looking for installed copies. It's always a race between bots and site admins.
Just ask some of the mods how much spam gets through and how much gets caught here on FT. There's plenty, I've happened upon some spam posts before they were dumped here.