As long as there have been forums in the realm of the www there have been robots, spam bots, virus', you name it. The robots are fine as they allow topics and cache pages to show up when people enter Google searches, etc. The spam bots are the shlt stirrers lol. They automatically register usually, 95% of the time with such a BS user name like "XXXsxlady" and a bogus email that Ray Charles could spot from the moon like "
xhhhsxisus@333fbdn.com". That's why Admin had to have new users first be accepted otherwise this place would get flooded with Viagra posts, sex posts, adult video links you name it, trust me.