Actually, the spam level hasn't increased at all this week. It is just that the people who normally delete the spam from the board are all in Vegas for the convention and have less time than normal to do the deletes.

They cannot post to a deleted message. If it appears that way then the message was deleted after a reply was made.

There are no "3 common" IP addresses. I block about 50 IP addresses already and add to the list weekly.

If you emailed me and didn't get a reply it is because the email you sent got stuck in my spam folder or my reply to you got stuck in your spam folder.

Greg