I understand I could use PERL which could be my server side way around the restrictions but to be honest after two days of dealing with absurd jvm troubles, compilation issues and lack of sleep, I am thoroughly sick of this project.
Perhaps, I could make a MOD instead which could scan each users message for links and certain words in them like, sex, porn, xxx, even url's you are aware of, if any offending words or urls are found, the script could *** those words out and kill the link; thus, the spammers link would be dead and the Moderator could be alerted to it's existance via auto PM and would then have the oppurtunity to delete the post and ban the account. I sumise that by killing the links in the posts is the most certain way to defeat spam. For example, lets say the spammer works for: http://www.sex-porn.com, with the MOD in place the post would result in: http://www.***-****.com. By doing that you eliminate the key element of the spam, the linkage! As spammers become more broad, you keep track of these urls and add them to the list, which would treat the url as if it were the word porn or sex, it too would be *** out.
You guys think this would work or no?