You have a point and I usually never do, I just felt personally invaded when "it" came to my thread.
One thing I wonder is why a commersial system like vBulleting doesn't have better anti-spam methods, I thought they would be more motivated to come up with better weapons.
Almost always when I setup some open source CMS there is a spammer swine within 1 hour. There should be anti-terror squads to handle them

. I have this secret dream of a youtube clip with some spammer about to setup new bots just before some Navy Seals or SAS comes in and sprays the bastard with bullets, then dumps his body in some sea. Can this dream come true you think?