wine users - May 2009 - Full guide: How to Crack DRM Video

Why isn't it possible to simply unregister users who send spam like 
this?   If it's not a bot and is a registered user, shouldn't there be 
some consequence to posting spam?  Recognizing that the idiot could 
re-register with another name and manually post more of this again, it 
seems like "we" should be making it more difficult for him/her to 
continually pollute the list.

On 5/12/09 wine-users-request at winehq.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:49:26 -0500
> From: "gamblor01" <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
> Subject: [Wine]  Re: Full guide: How to Crack DRM Video,	Rip a DVD and
> 	burn a DVD
> To: wine-users at winehq.org
> Message-ID: <1242139766.m2f.24755 at forum.winehq.org>
>
> Not 100% convinced that this is a bot.  Yes, this EXACT same post was just
posted on ubuntuforums.com last night.  Identical wording, pictures, and all.
>
> However, it's a registered user on the forum and unless they have
figured out how to get around pictorial captcha boxes, it has to be a real
person that is spending the time to register and then post this garbage. 
Unfortunately, that means there is no way around it.  :/
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Standard policy don't bother responding to them Michael Reich.

Mailing list and forms will get there fair share of spam from time to time.

Problem is captcha is not a problem for bots anymore people determined to spam
pay humans to process the captcha and have bot do the rest.  captcha only slows
down the least advanced bots who don't have a farm of humans to process
captcha's.

Giving them attention like this only make it worse.   Request that topic
disappears from forum  directly in a pm or other message to the forum maintainer
is the most effective.

Lot of the bots do check back how well there advertising lasts.   On the forum I
would have not even known about it because its already off the first page if no
one had commented about it.

There will be fools out there who will go looking for it because it still here.