Dear
As you have seen, we have constant attacks from spammers. they use automated systems to register to this board and spam the forum.
they concentrate on this specific forum because "Frequently Asked Questions" is present in any installation of YABB.
while i'm trying to fix this problem regular users can't post on this board.
sorry... but i'm tired of having to clean spam every day.
massimo
...and if you can read this, replies still do work though 
i just thought that closing the faq forum might be a good idea anyway. just a couple of people should be allowed to write here since the FAQ are by definition a place for frequently asked questions. but as this forum section is also the most visited one, many people (including me once or twice) tend to ask rather specific questions that could be posted to the dedicated sections instead.
if a poster knows that his question is frequently asked, why post it anyway and not just read the answer 
and as is understand this would be a solution to the spam problem as well.
what do you think?
best, kuk