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Guys,

I'm wondering if you've installed the Akismet plugin for SMF as we're running SMF..
http://www.dansoftaustralia.net/products/akismet.dsa

My suggestion would be to extend the SMF plugin to include personal messages (if at all possible). PMs still remain UGC as much as forum posts.

Not a bad suggestion. I have seen this plugin in the past, but I will look at it again. I'd say our mods and community notice and report 99.9% of spam on our forum though. Truly amazing to see how clean we are able to keep things really.

We use Askimet on the Developer Blog where within 8 Month nearly 190.000 Spam comments where catched, but for the Forum there are a lot pros and contras as you also can read on the SMF Forum, so i guess the best way to handle this is still our great Mod Team