Re: the IP question. I can see what the moderators have to put up with.

It could be a Helvetica (Ultra Compressed) with a modified |t| (the top cut) and a custom |y| (note that |y| baseline is off, anyway).

Regarding your IP issue, I don't think you can easily find somebody to respond to your request.
I have also send a message the other day to ask about the spam amount on the site, and received no answer.
I feel that Typophile is running in the auto pilot at the moment, no moderators, no admins, nothing.

I'm a moderator, but I can only delete spam within threads. Sorry to see the rabid increase of spam threads slipping thru the filters I have the option to Unpublish an entire thread but nothing happens when I click on the button. Irksome to be sure, I only hope that they (whoever owns this site) are working hard to complete the code allowing me to do what I do.

As for the unanswered IP requests I hope they are resolved sooner rather than later.

Hi Neil,
and thank you for your response.
Regarding the spam mess: Sometimes a simple (but not so commonly used) method is more effective that a fancy (captcha etc) one. A simple question on user registration form like "Five and two equals: X" may result in a very good protection, even if the numbers are constant and not changing ;)
The reason for that is the spammers usually use automated tools which cannot parse generic questions, especially if the question is displayed as an image.
Even if you can't implement the solution, I hope that you can forward this option to the admins/owners.

Fivos

Fivos, as of some time now, there is such question (something about who designed Gill Sans), but it accepts any input, so the spambots simply fill every text field they can with random strings and they’re in…

Ricardo I can't believe that a bot can guess "Eric Gill" by trying random words.
If you check your profile, the correct answer ("Eric Gill") is public:
http://typophile.com/user/46071
Maybe this is the reason (some) bots get-in very easily?
Maybe they try the words are seeing on other users' profiles.

Another trick: Introducing a reasonable delay of e.g. 5 secs after any failed registration attempt, it would greatly reduce the success rate of any bot trying to get in with brute force attempts (random strings, etc).

It does’t need to be “Eric Gill”, anything goes. That’s the problem.
Introducing email confirmation, that could limit the bots.

I really don't understand... If there is no check for the right answer, what's the meaning of the question?

Email confirmation will not limit (all) the bots: I'm admin in various forums and there are many bots that pass the email confirmation check. If you need absolute spam control the only solution is to have the moderators manually check and confirm any new registration.

This would require editing as well:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tipo-pepel/chupada/

Could the post be moved to another thread, could the name of the post be changed (e.g., "SPAM" ), could the link in the text be obliterated, or ... ?