MidnightMcMedic: Lost? Yeah, right.

I will follow reza to the BrainKing.com discussion board if the subject is picked up there. It would seem to be the more matching board for the subject. Aside from playing games where a computer can't help, I doubt anything can be done to resolve the problem of people using outside help to make their moves, especially on a turn based site where one can let the computer run for days before spitting out a move to make. But you never know, someone might have some ideas for it and the requests will be made.

One possible solution is to embrace it, instead of fighting and rejecting it. Allow it completely and then it is no longer a problem at all. Since you can then just assume all opponents are doing it, it won't matter to you if you choose not to use a program or get someone to help with your moves. This can be thought of as a request to change the user agreement to not say it isn't allowed. Since it can't be enforced, why not just allow it and be done with it? Tournament creators could still put in the titles that they would like or not like computers to help and we wouldn't have to hear people complain about "cheating" of this type any more.
A policy like this would also incourage tournaments made for programs to compete against each other and this would strengthen this site amoungst those that are into programs and computers. I personally don't mind playing against machines if I know in advance that my opponent will be a machine or that my opponent will have a machine help with his moves. I'm not the strongest Janus Chess player on this site, but I have defeated Sumerian's Smirf program 5 times in the 19 games that we've played. Since it is a machine, it doesn't mind playing the game out past where most people would have resigned and this has helped me learn to play the game better without tiring, boring, or insulting a human opponent.