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I will also add - and reiterate again as I'm sure it's been mentioned before - that registration is also not a deterrant to spammers, who generally sign up and bombard the other registered members with spam/scams. They also sign up in order to post non-theatre related threads and/or comments that are spam. In the last few days I have personally banned a couple of these registered members. But they disappear without most people even knowing they were here in the first place, so no one really can understand how pervasive the attacks are unless they have backend access; I assure you, looking at the backend logs is an eye-opener to how much spam and how many banned members are knocked back every day. There is faulty logic in assuming that registration will solve either trolls or spam. It's a part of internet life and we just have to make ourselves more strident in proctecting the site. Registration certainly will not solve the problems - but I do wish we had it anyway. Seahorse shadow puppet for sale at Puppets in Melbourne