To reduce spammers here are some fun ways to do it that will occuppy there time and reduce/eliminate they're actually spamming anyone:

1. Get rid of the stupid Get E-Mail. This thing is ridiculous and should never have been installed, what was Boonex thinking.

2. Install an e-mail filtering system that monitors for certain phrases/words/characters and so on. Set this thing to look for the normal spam, http://*, ww*, .com, .co.uk, .org and so on. We all know what they use, set the filter see more to watch for it and catch it. This is really fun as they can spend hours sending e-mails to your site members that literally go nowhere.

3. Set word filtering that changes certain words to new meanings. For example: http://myspamsite.com will no be: I really like tasting cow dung from goat hoofs. Go ahead and let them post that on your forum, groups, shoutbox and so on. What's it really hurting? Plus when they see their links will not work it will eventually drive them away.

4. Lock down the site by killing free mode & promotional mode and run it as a normal site. You can still enable everything to the standard members, but force the registration.

5. Utilize an IP tracking system in the Admin Panel of the site, this will help you track the IP's and if your considering banning an individual run it through whoisip.com and so on to verify if it's an aol proxy or an actual user ip. Blocking IP's is a temp fix at best as people move around and such, home work, coffee shop, friends house, library and so on, you will spend a lot of time tracking them around to use just that means.

I'm not a fan of the verification e-mails, especially for young sites, as it ends up discouraging more people than actually resolving problems.

And yes, these tricks work and in the end they reduce spam on the site to virtually nothing.