Well ... being the skeptic I am these days ... can't help thinking its like those "Opt Out" links in email Spam. All they do is confirm they have a good email address.

Can't help thinking its the same thing with the Forum Spam ... the link just lets them know their spam is getting through correctly to the forum.

I had my own forum (very small one) a few years back. And I started getting those Forum Spam things. In a classic case of overkill ... I traced the IP ... found out that all of the posts were coming from one block of IP's and banned the whole friggin' lot of them. Cured the spam problem. But I guess if there was someone legit using the same block of IP's ... then they couldn't access my site either. But I'd rather have that than the forum spam But that was me

Peter