aBroadAbroad is aboard with the issue. Information Desk, as it is the first open forum, gets hit hard.

Though once upon a time (it seems so log ago!) it was easy for spam suppression software to autoflag new posts with "vi@gr@" in the title or pornspam, it's gotten substantially trickier - and we are getting new varieties of spam as well, offering spells, fortune telling, mutu (well, OK, not the last, but nearly!)