Fixed the 3 char MAXIMUM.. I misread it as MINIMUM.
doh....
I posted a board wide announcement at the top of all forums--delete any spam he sent ya. Any PM's you get are safe-as in safe to open, but clicking on links an unknown user has in their PM *could* take you to a website with bad stuff..
I'm manually validating new members again now. These f'ing bots are getting smarter, sadly.. Going to install a newer image recognition package and other tricks to fool the bots.