Bump to bump the spam off the first page. 

The kitchen guy is a well known crook.  He was featured on a BBC program recently.  He has conned many people, and this spamming is just part of his "empire".
 
I believe he has some pretty nasty connections.  Can't remember his name, though.
 
Scum, mayybe that was it.

vance miller is his name..  he is known as the "kitchen gangster" in the UK. I only know him coz of his spamming here..  I will not buy anything from him or any of his companies as a result.

problem is , he is hiring a 3rd party to spam up every site that uses this cruddy forum software.. other sites I go on don't have this issue..

but other places who uses this forum s/ware do. 

it's bot's doing the spamming, and they get around the "captua" type things by using OCR to get the right code.

not sure how steiny or props stop it.. both forums don't have this issues.. and it looks unprofessional here.


this forum can't even format text right IF in the wrong browser... says a lot

Thanks, Fog, that's the bum.

Here's a little info about my own email server back 2006:

I pulled my email logs for last week. For a period of 168 hours (7 days), there were 7153 attempts to deliver email to my server. 4888 were rejected due to DNSBL (thanks www.spamhaus.org); another 1159 were bounce'd, no such user. 254 connections ended in timeouts (most were from cnet.com); 6 were rejected due to relaying. The remaining 670 email's made it to my client, where 567 found there way into the SPAM folder.

In summary, out of 7153 attempts to deliver email to my server, only 128 were for legitimate email.
 
Since the Cakewalk forums are very well known and popular, I would imagine the numbers here 10x more than what I just listed.  I've run forums in the past, it's a lot of work.  I would say it is like recording a piano, with the monitor speaker inside the piano aimed at the mic. 
 
I watched a forum get so overrun by spam it had to shut down.   It was a good forum.  I'm also a member of several closed forums.  It keeps the riff-raff out, but it's a lot of work for those that run it.
 
I was looking at purchasing a product and had to registered with a forum to check it out, I moved on.
 
With all this talk about spam, y'all made me hungry...
 
-JJ
 
 

thing is , the audience for the cruddy kitchens is wrong.. as this is really mainly US based.. the UK base for sonar isn't as big..

because he's hiring a 3rd party to do the spamming, it's tricky to get him for it. 

I must say the mods are getting quick a getting rid of spam. I reported a guy who had spammed 13 times in a short period throughout the Cakewal forums. That was about an hour ago and they are all deleted now.