Cranko
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Forum membership list????????Is there one of these anywhere listed. the whole 248 of us 
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tmuir
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If you want to see the names of all the members on the forum look just below the forum title and click on Memberlist.
There is 5 pages of members. 
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Cranko
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Thanks Tony , not sure what is happening, I'm sure earlier today we had 253 members and now we only have 249. any good explination
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Stilldrillin
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Have we upset anyone recently?
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mc_mc
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It's the moderators doing their usual good job. Popular forums attract spam bots which are pieces of software that automatically register with forums as a new member and then start posting spam and sending PM messages. Our mods do a good job of cleaning these things up mostly before we spot anything.
Thanks guys!
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barry1946
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| mc_mc wrote: | It's the moderators doing their usual good job. Popular forums attract spam bots which are pieces of software that automatically register with forums as a new member and then start posting spam and sending PM messages. Our mods do a good job of cleaning these things up mostly before we spot anything.
Thanks guys! |
Well done Mods!  I wondered why our numbers rose and fell.
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Sandman
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| mc_mc wrote: | It's the moderators doing their usual good job. Popular forums attract spam bots which are pieces of software that automatically register with forums as a new member and then start posting spam and sending PM messages. Our mods do a good job of cleaning these things up mostly before we spot anything.
Thanks guys! |
Spot on.
Most of the spammers are taken out by Wallace who checks out all applications for membership.
Any blatantly obvious ones are taken out by Tony or James as well.
It's because of their vigilance and good work we remain spam free.
A lot of forums suffer badly from spammers, but as I've stated we don't tolerate them at all.
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Wallace
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Nothing to worry about Cranko 
MC got it spot on. I did a cleanout this afternoon. Quite often we get spambots who if let in would fill this forum with spam.
Also many of these spambots have websites in their profile. If you see one never click it.
Roughly 2 - 3 spammers a day are deleted.
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Doh, SM beat me to it 
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Atticman
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| Wallace wrote: | Nothing to worry about Cranko
MC got it spot on. I did a cleanout this afternoon. Quite often we get spambots who if let in would fill this forum with spam.
Roughly 2 - 3 spammers a day are deleted.
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You mean that none of the postings we make can be called spam then?
Thats a relief cos I thought my messages were nearing spam like amounts 
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Graham-Jilly
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but with the amount of members we have there only seems to be a very dedicated few who are here all the time wonder what has happened to the rest
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Sandman
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| Graham-Jilly wrote: | | but with the amount of members we have there only seems to be a very dedicated few who are here all the time wonder what has happened to the rest |
There are a lot of members who like to browse the forum, but don't post a lot.
We are lucky to have as many regular posters as we have.
A lot of forums would give their eye teeth to have the amount of interest we have.
Speaking for myself, I lurked in the background on the old forum for months until I plucked up the courage to post.
Now, you can't get rid of me.
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Graham-Jilly
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hey we wouldnt want to get rid of the sandman
he who has one of the best looking workshops we have ever seen
and such a friendly chap as well and a where would the sandman shiny award come from if you were not here.
great to have you as a member and a forum member. we havent been members a slong as others but we always come on to see what is happening and to catch up on the gosip and yes we blame this forum for keeping us poor
any way we both love this forum and are on morning and night
cheers G-J
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tmuir
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Its pretty standard for on any forum for about 5% of members to make 80% of the posts and maybe only have 10 to 15% of members regular posters with other just posting now and then and sum never posting.
But thats fine aslong as everyone learns something or finds out what they want to know we can't ask more than that.
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Cranko
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Thanks guys for the explanation, I have little knowledge of all thinks internet. It is interesting looking through the membership list and noting that possibly 50% of all members have not posted at all. I mean, WHY Join , why not just be an unlisted looker 
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Manxman
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| Cranko wrote: | | Thanks guys for the explanation, I have little knowledge of all thinks internet. It is interesting looking through the membership list and noting that possibly 50% of all members have not posted at all. I mean, WHY Join , why not just be an unlisted looker |
Easy, 1) you get to see the 'members only' sections and 2) people forget what they called themselves, or their password and have to join again. I think I've joined the Yahoo group 3 times because I couldn't remember what I'd called myself. Now I stick to the same name and password for nearly everything.
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Sandman
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| Graham-Jilly wrote: | hey we wouldnt want to get rid of the sandman
he who has one of the best looking workshops we have ever seen
and such a friendly chap as well and a where would the sandman shiny award come from if you were not here.
great to have you as a member and a forum member. we havent been members a slong as others but we always come on to see what is happening and to catch up on the gosip and yes we blame this forum for keeping us poor
any way we both love this forum and are on morning and night
cheers G-J |
AWWWWW. 
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Graham-Jilly
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no need to blush there sandy is true you have been an inspiration to a lot of members on here so hope we can meet you in person next year
cheers G-J
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by the way we ow you a pint or two
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