Neither I nor the forum proprietors can stop the mindless pondlife from inventing new Email addresses.
If you read my OP you will see that I was careful to say "able to stop spam bots". I posted after checking the registration form and finding that it lacks even the most elementary precautions to prevent robot registrations. That is almost unheard of these days on even amateur websites let alone commercial ones such as this.
That will not stop "the mindless pondlife" doing it the hard way but I found it avoids much of the regular spam. Even the human variety can be neutered by doing as alan1302 suggested and pre-moderating the first few posts. I find just 2 is usually effective. Finally, you weed out invented email addresses by sending an automated email to each new one. The owner has to receive it and click a link to authenticate their registration.
No idea what your browsing habits are but it is virtually impossible to use the Internet these days without encountering all of those precautions somewhere. Except on this website ....
Edited by misar on 22/11/2020 at 08:17
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