ElectriciansForum wrote:
Thanks for the response guys, you will notice that your helpful posts will
not be deleted from the forum, nor will they be ridiculed and flamed. The
professional people who began the forum believe in freedom of speech.

Ah yes, free speech. Spammers *love* to tell us all about the virtues of
free speech. Particularly when 'free' means 'at not/negligible cost to
the sender'; regardless of the costs to the recipients in time,
attention, storage, signal-to-noise. Where 'free' - to the sender -
means leeching off the accumulated social capital of established
networks of interest, and/or technical means of communication.

Any similarity between the crude actions of email spammers, and those
who pop up in established fora saying - not just the once, but
repeatedly - 'hey! pipple! look over there! it's new! it's whizzy! it's
got HTML and PHP and all sortsa stuff! you're gonna love it!' - is left
as an exercise for the reader...

Stefek