If it's automated, you only spend time writing it. Once it's working, it's a highly saleable product. Testing in a low profile, low traffic forum (comparatively speaking) keeps it below the radar of the busier sites that on constantly on the lookout for spammers for longer.Jshock wrote:You think he's running a bot to amass forum cred? Do programmers that good have that kind of spare time?
It might also be looking for vulnerabilities in phpBB, which are far from unknown.