Dave,
Pruning of the site, it\'s contents, it\'s members etc goes on all the time - that\'s part of the role of being administrator - doing the ermmm....admin.
The majority of those who have recently been deleted, joined NESA when it was \"view by log-in only\" - they HAD to join to be able to read the forums to which they previously had access without logging in. Again, in the majority of cases, they never had any intention of ever posting on the Board.
Contrary to what you may believe, I didn\'t take offence at your previous comments - only felt that they were somewhat over-egged for the sake of a \"couple of friends\" of yours.............\"During this time I have introduced a couple of friends to it. They have browsed it and left, \"too confusing\" cant find anything.\"
Must admit, I was a bit surprised to read your comment:
\"With regards to your comments about people who should put their pc\'s back in the box, from experience they are in the majority and it is a minority who understand msql etc .....\"
Since when did you need to be msql savvy to operate the scroll function ?????
Yes, I appreciate all CONSTRUCTIVE comments and usually act upon them, but when a couple of people can\'t manage to scroll down a page to find something - that\'s not a problem with the site - it\'s a problem with the user.
[Edited on 9/7/2006 by TC]
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My mate Dale also managed to get his first tope - 42lb 
