@AWOL I still struggle to understand when 'they' will know it is right and how we will find out so that we can just make our changes once. No response from the webmaster, btw.
I don't think anyone disagrees with the need for it if it stops the spammers, just the lack of comms is a bit frustrating.
Out of interest, my new signature is less than 140 chars, the old one is not!