Over the last week or so we have unfortunately had some spammers posting to this Forum. They and their messages have been duly removed. I have also been checking recent email addresses and have found several odd ones, all very similar. These I have also deleted as they do not seem to be genuine, i.e. interest in knots and knotting. If I am in error in doing this, please accept my apologies and feel free to rejoin.
We do have an awful lot of members who have not posted, either a question or a comment - just over half in fact. Of the rest 20% have posted only once, 29% have posted between 2 and 200 times, and just 2 members have posted over 300 messages. Just a few stats in case anyone’s interested ;D I know of a few members who enjoy reading the messages (well most of them, anyway), but who are not confident enough to join in. Perhaps they’re a little intimidated by some of the more technical topics. To them I would like to say, please don’t be. The Forum is first of all for anyone who is interested in tying knots in bits of string (oops, sorry, that should really be cord or rope 
). There are those who find the detailed technicalities of knots fascinating, and there are those who just wish to learn how not to tie a Granny Knot - interest is through the whole range. Hopefully everyone will find something within this Forum.
Lesley
In this forum we can see how long members are online.
Many of the ‘new members’ do log out right after becoming a member.
We moderators have more and more the habit of deletings the accounts of those ‘members’ we suspect of being a spammer. One thing all these spammers seem to do is to get a membership and never returning to the site.
Time online therefor is one of the ways we use to determine which members are real and which are spammers.
But we do make mistakes, if you are a genuine member who has the habit not to log in, and your account got deleted by accident, please register again and make sure you log on for more than just a minute.
Willeke
I’m glad to see that you folks pay attention to such things – sometimes a clinker gets through the maze and manages to post garbage on one or another of the forums where I visit.
Speaking of visiting forums, this is my first post here, though I’ve been an IGKT member for a while – just realized that this online forum was here, and decided to pop in for a bit. Perhaps some regulars here will recall meeting me once or twice at NAB meetings.
Off to look at other message threads…
Loren
Hi Loren,
Welcome to the forum! Loren made a wonderful ring for my wife - she still shows it off to anyone who will ask her, of which there are many! His skills are incredible - take a good look at his web-site - highly recommended!
SR
Found a Harrison Ford message on one of my Posts Willeke. Got rid of it immediately. Was dated Aug 5, 2006, 07:20 ; 12a.m. :)Thanks for the info
At the top of my page,
Latest member, ‘orderviagra695’
Maybe I’m being too suspicious, but come on! ;D
Kicked off, and his current IP number is banned.
Willeke