[conspire] Web spam and yandex forms

[Akkana Peck]

You guys are brilliant, thanks! I'm sure Ivan's idea is right:
the spam message is in the username, which is part of the
confirmation email (because I didn't originally include it, and
learned that sometimes users forgot what username they'd picked
and then gave up after a bunch of failed login attempts).

I sure hope I didn't get on any blacklists while that was going on!

And I hate recaptcha (the number of hours of my life I've wasted
clicking on traffic signal photos over and over, because Google
*never* agrees with me about traffic signals -- I have no idea what
they think a traffic signal is) and was very resistant to that idea,
but I love Rick's suggestions about chatty English captcha
substitutes, and the suggestions in the links you sent look good
too, so I'll read through more of them before picking one.

I confess I would have been unclear whether to try Faye or Faye W.
for Faye's given name, on the theory that the W. was also given. :-)

        ...Akkana