I made a rather simple adjustment which has apparently given us a temporary tactical edge over the execrable vermin known as "spammers," namely the requirement of approval of ones membership.
We have had close to 20 spamming members in the last 2 days, probably all from the same knuckle-dragging individual, but regardless I can't stand it anymore so we now have the slightly pretentious need to approve a member before he or she can post. Now the would-be spammers will have to be a little more clever in their loathesome activities. We'll see how it goes.