One of the spammers favorite threads here is Shamble's "Closed and Deleted" thread! Often the first hit every time.   On several occasions I have closed that one and a few others for short periods of time to stop the spam. The spammer was hitting far faster than I could delete it.

That might be because the first post to it is now spam for a porn site.

As whilst you are busy closing that thread and removing spam from it - the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team (for reasons of his own) was intentionally littering that thread with the spam that he had removed from other threads.

I am not sure what message that is giving out? Perhaps a little communication between our 'moderators' to ensure that a more consistent approach is adopted - would be a good start?