How does it make you feel when people ask off topic questions in this category?

[Moru]

This is true most of the time - when I remove spam, signature links are generally my second check (after relevance to topic) in proving that the post is spam. However this spammer uses no signature or links (unless they've been removed by the Admins).

It was signature linkspam on that user, I removed it along with 1200 other users.

[Ian Price]

Or perhaps it would be safe, generally for most forums, to disable URL and external images for new members.

Indeed. Some forums I'm a member of don't allow you to post links of any kind until you've posted X number of posts (usually 10). However some spammers we've had here post more than this in one sitting - I deleted about 20 from one poster not long ago, and others aren't far off.

Determined spammers will get around whatever you put in front of them. Restrictions can eradicate auto-spammers, but not human spammers. Where there's a will, there's a way