Are the spammers getting tired or something?

[Bob Schroeck]

And this morning there were two more new membership requests, both from the same IP address, both with ProtonMail emails (which the last few also had), and submitted an hour apart. StopForumSpam.com doesn't recognize the IP as a known spam source, but it's pretty obvious to me that they're would-be spammers. I sent the usual challenge letter, but I expect to be deleting the requests on Thursday morning.

EDIT: Another obvious clue for me is a new user requesting a username with a number on the end, like that imposed by Gmail and other services, and a period or other punctuation mark in the middle instead of a space. Makes it clear that they haven't actually read the boards and seen that there's no requirement for either of those things in a username.