The forum was attacked by spammers three times today, twice the morning and once this evening. Unfortunately I had to turn Image Verification back on to put a stop to it. Yeah, I hate it too, but it works and keeps others from hijacking the forum.
Yes I got one of them in my OE mail from a Forum in 2011.
Pity I was enjoying not fighting with that id thing. Bad enough I have to try twice to get Web Forum to even come up now. Must be some change you made a few months back. 1st time I get a blank screen to right side of menu and lower screen bar saying done. So hit Web Forum a second time and wait for it to come up. Didn't say anything before.