I haven't been here for a while.....I've been lurking around every few weeks and I have also notice the spam. I actually own a site a lot bigger than this one and we get about 50 spam bots per day and we manage to stop all 50 bots. Let me say that captcha has been cracked and it's useless, it will provide SOME protection, but most bots these days have bypass that security. The BEST spam protection are the Q&A's, make up your own questions that only people would know. Nick, you should also look into CloudFlare, and stopforumspam.com as means to thwart spammers. We get about 2-3 spammers per week now. Just my suggestions...