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Yes that's the fundamental problem here.
Spam bots are a fact of life online and they have to be constantly removed by site administrators.
Its been obvious to me since this frank thing began that there is no longer anyone in charge here. The only administrator that I know of is Mike and he hasn't logged in for well over a year.
While you can block frank's posts all the threads are jumbled every time he appears which stops the forum from working properly.
If Mikes not interested anymore (and that's fine, priorities can change with time) you would think he would have offered it to someone else.
I've started to wonder if he's died and the cost of this forum is just being debited from his estate. One day it may just disappear without warning.