uhh huh....I can see it now.... Hey lets let the teenagers have some beer and the car key's...what the heck..its just beer... no harm done...
I'm just trying to reduce the # of "New Thread" e-mails I get and unfortunately, that would do nothing to alleviate those. This is particularly true when one person starts a spam thread in every forum that I subscribe to.
chit chat & poli reli etc should in NO WAY serve to establish "quasi-legitimacy" of a handle... probation period: spammers' time is money, they focus on least-resistance-path, max-impact type techniques /sites... agree that an always-on posse of anti-spam warriors is a good complimentary measure though! anonymizer type spamming: there are tools, e.g. http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewforum.php?f=37 ... just ban the incriminated domains and inform the domain owners... its for them to take appropriate measures, and if they don't, then no regret in having banned them...