Hi,

Just wanted to say that it's nice to see this forum up and moving again! I first found it a couple of years ago when we were fighting with our small pool.......it kept turning a horrid tea color. Found a quick fix (Vitamin C powder) and the cause, and we had several years of pool fun. We've since built a new house and don't have a pool at the moment, but I have friends that do so I checked back in here occasionally. Nice to see it open for new registrants, since I could not give my heartfelt thanks back then.......so thanks for the help!

Now, about the spammers.....I understand you are trying to cut down on spammers, but it seems quite a time-consuming and somewhat complicated way you are going about it. I own a rather large forum, and I administrate on a HUGE computer tech forum, and neither of these forums have much of a problem with spammers. As you can imagine, the computer tech forum would draw in an ENORMOUS amount of spam, if any place would! vBulletin, which I see you are using here, has several add-ons that help with spam that are simple and easy to use. I use one that allows me to create my own questions and answers, allowing me to use more than one at a time, and I very rarely have any spammers get through, even though my questions are simple (yet forum-topic related). The one I administrate on has a different program that scans email address domains through a dynamic database for spammers.

At any rate, vBulletin has some nifty options, and I'd be happy to answer any questions or help with any information I have.