thanks for inviting our input, Ninja. Personally, I'd love to see how effective your addition of the Captcha is as filtering out the spam. There may be no need to take additional steps. I'm with you - the simpler the better. I chose registration/logon partially for personal reasons. Each comes with its advantages and disadvantages. I've always pretty much liked your forum just the way it is. No rush, I say wait a bit and see what happens...