Ban anyone who runs their own forum: job done!

Thank you, Peter. You make some good points and we'll have a think about them.

Sorry so many posts I missed this or only skip read.

As long as you accept you will not be protected from EOTW, but if you have left pig and are going back to you old persona then I would welcome it, as would members at HFS to your renewal of your equipment review blog there, as many (including me) have praised it.

Definition of spamming

"Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages (spam), especially advertising, indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social spam, television advertising and file sharing spam. It is named after Spam, a luncheon meat, by way of a Monty Python sketch in which Spam is included in every dish.

Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. Because the barrier to entry is so low, spammers are numerous, and the volume of unsolicited mail has become very high. In the year 2011, the estimated figure for spam messages is around seven trillion. The costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, are borne by the public and by Internet service providers, which have been forced to add extra capacity to cope with the deluge. Spamming has been the subject of legislation in many jurisdictions.

A person who creates electronic spam is called a spammer.

Forum spam is the creating of messages that are advertisements on Internet forums. It is generally done by automated spambots. Most forum spam consists of links to external sites, with the dual goals of increasing search engine visibility in highly competitive areas such as weight loss, pharmaceuticals, gambling, pornography, real estate or loans, and generating more traffic for these commercial websites. Some of these links contain code to track the spambot's identity; if a sale goes through, the spammer behind the spambot works on commission."

As should be obvious to anyone I have done none of this.

Nor do I, it was your point, so back it up.

I counted two. Go back and find it yourself. If I hadn't had to trawl through tons of crap, it would be easier to find.

And how many by your definition Spam posts were from Marco which my post was answer to, huh! = biased moderation.

Have you gone back and checked? Marco and others had their posts moderated too.

Indeed, and I have no problem with that. It was difficult to know exactly where to draw the line during that rather hectic period of, let's call it, the 'frank exchanging of views'! So my apologies if I stepped out of line.

MODERATION: thank you for the apology and let's keep it off name calling now, thanks.