Forum name change
Perhaps we should just change the name of this to "Spam General" and create a new "Europe General" forum? Think the spambots would catch on?

Maybe if we create a Spam General Forum, all the Spambots would avoid the legitimate forums.

I think we should do that to see what happens. Jo?

The spambots will go wherever the forum name is the most like the board name.

BTW, perhaps we could just open up a forum called something that will really draw them, like the "Forumer 12 Europeforum Spammery".

I like the sound of a Spammery. It sounds like a Conservatory, only a bit gruesome :D

Sounds like one of those places they do evil testings on humans.

A forum just for bots. Sounds like a good idea to me. It would make the moderators' and adminitrators' jobs easier too wouldn't it? Then change 'Europe General' into 'Europa General' and they'll probably bypass it completely.... The bot forum would be like that cable tv channel 'TV Shop' which ONLY shows low grade 30 minute long commercials: utter and sheer hell! But no one need go there.

I think it might be the 'general' part that attracts them. We probably need to change the name entirely. :(

We could change the name of the whole caboodle to "Moose's Spam Forum" or similar, and then try to corral the bots into a special Spam Forum :) That might work, although I don't know if Moose wants to be associated with a Spam Forum ;)

The only thing that stops me deleting or renaming this forum is that it's fairly convenient to have them all in one place :)

Like I said, rename it (or start a a new one) something even more like the url, I suggested "Forumer 12 Europeforum Spammery".