[Skywise]

I found the exact nature of the problem.

Comment spammers.

I found this by examining the logs for a typical message that was accessed repeatedly. They were all attempts to post messages.

I checked the IP address of a dozen or so attempted posters and they all showed up in various blacklists.

Although the posting ability on the old forum is disabled by removing the posting code, the message boxes still exist within the messages themselves. Therefore the spambots thought they could still post a message.

So I have my work cut out for me. Every single message file has to be modified to remove the code that shows the posting forms before I can expose them to the world again.

Brian