i am starting to think Audiogon profits off the spam...

I don’t think they support it, they don’t know how to stop it. It’s been happening for too long. Perhaps hiring an IT consultant would help rather than trying to solve the problem inhouse.

@elizabeth , yes Audiogon is a great place and the mods have their hands full. But have you ever been on the forum on the overnight...after 2am EST? 

There is so much spam I've given up on reading the forum. I'm a night owl and this is my time for online reading.

+2 @dweller . Or a variation on your idea, all 1st time posters must have their post reviewed by moderator.
 

Tonight there are more spam postings than ever before, many of them are repeated.
Maybe Audiogon installed software to try and stop the spammers, but instead it pissed them off.

Good point @noromance. They're having such an easy time getting into the forum, where else have they been?