Hi Lorna,

I mark a forum as "read" when I don't want to bother looking at the recent posts. Either the topic doesn't interest me, or I can see that the only new posts are by spammers (the names always give them away) and I don't want to interact.

TPANDV has summed it up perfectly Lorna. If there is an obvious spammer, I don't want to open the thread and just mark it as read - to my detriment

Update to this,.
I am looking at how to move the forums onto a new platform that will be more robust.
Currently I don't have a time frame. It will depend on how big the job is, cost etc..
I am working on it though.

Helen, I've been wondering about 99% of the latest spammers. They've all got different email addresses but they've all been posting about the same website, The Cooking Club. Is it possible to block any post that contains the URL of The Cooking Club?

Yes it should be. I will go and look at it now.

There are some in today's Foodlovers Food Talk forum. I'll leave them there for now in case you need any of the information from them.