The three report rule was dropped a month or so after the host program was introduced. Once a host notices the spam or a ticket is created (which also alerts the hosts) the spam and spammer are handled.

How about every time you login you also must type a code which is shown in a small window. But it will need a big change and won't be used because I guess the software devs need to change the software. But it could work against spam.
Edit:at least I think the code system would help against spam

Hi,
 
Spam is not hard to locate and track and do something about it, if folks are attentive to it. The problem is that when you have someone waiting for it, it never arrives! But the real issue should be that most mail servers should kill spoof'ing on the spot and they don't, because about one third to one half of your email would be dead.
 
It was originally thought that IPv6 would help because the mail servers would have to have a specific identifier, but that was killed and most big names did not take advantage of that process, including Microsoft, and many others, because they themselves use the process underneath without you knowing to get themselves information, and this same style is used by other folks to think that they got a "hit", upon which the cost and efficiency of Yahoo and Google is depending ... and until some of that gets addressed, that is the money versus abuse side of it, this crap will continue.
 
This is a simplified view of it ... by no means is this literal.

The best way to get SPAM out of the Cakewalk forums would be to close The Coffee House!!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! 

Make everyone a forum host.

We appear to be getting more forum ghosts than hosts... 

Lets eat it with white rice and stewed tomatoes!
 
J

Ah, quitcher bellyachin'. Anybody been keeping track of how many spam posts you DIDN'T see?
 
If zapped spammers were tallied by notches on one's blaster, Wookie, Karyn et al would need bigger blasters for all the scores filed onto them. Yours truly tries to do his bit, but being in the GMT-8 zone most of 'em have already been dealt with by the UK platoon by the time I get up.