Hello Avant, I have a 'technical' question of a different nature. My friend has been looking at the Backroom and enjoys it. She decided to create an account so she could contribute. Her computer is in 'dry dock' so she used my laptop. Registered with her own hotmail address, received the HJ reply to verify but the link let her through with my e mail address coming up. When she tried again she was barred from the server altogether. Is it because she is using my laptop? I would have thought her own e mail etc would suffice. Any suggestions, poor Margaret is champing at the bit. Thanks Concrete Avant ive had an idea, and ive just heard everyone now exit this page as ive said that but hear me out. You know we commonly have a problem of spammers dragging up every old thread if it features words of what they're trying to plug? Why not a system of every thread which hasnt received a reply in, lets say 90 days or something gets locked? Thanks for this Jamie: it makes sense, but we do get some resurrected threads where someone has a similar problem to one posted a few years ago, and now gets some new replies as well as the older ones.  So that's quite a useful function. Agreed, spammers are a pain but it doesn't take long to delete their posts, and my co-mods do quite a lot of this as they are around usually in