It's been a while since the last update so yesterday I finally got around to updating the site and applying all relevant security fixes. Quite a few bugs have been fixed but probably nothing anyone will notice
We have had quite a lot of spam attempts lately. No spam has actually been published since July, but we get 20+ posts a day that are stopped by the filters. Handling this manually is a nightmare so something had to be done.
We have now automated the process of dealing with spam and all users signing up with the intent of posting spam or attempting to post spam are automatically banned and reported to anti-spam sites.
At the moment all new users still has to be manually approved by and admin. We will abandon this approach once we have tested the new system for a couple of days.
That's all folks.