This is my last thread. I have been riding my VLX for almost 8 years now with 66K miles on it and plan to put 40K more. I look forward to awesome discussions with everyone here.
The protocol was suggested by the site owners a few years ago to stop the huge amount of spammers that were nailing the forum. We tried the captcha approach which was effective in stopping the spambots but did nothing for stopping the real live spammers. So with this method the spamming has virtually been nil.