We'll be suspending and banning people. Professional forum troublemakers are also being weeded out.

Anyone now registering for the forum must provide the following:

You must use an Internet Service Provider email address.
For example, Bigpond, Primus, Optus.
The e-mail address you provide must include the name of your Internet Service Provider.
Do not use a web based address like Hotmail or Yahoo.

We also reserve the right to insist on the above from any current member to maintain their forum membership and/or a full 100 points ID check.

As is happening throughout society, security is being tightened.

The days of people thinking they can roll up to this forum in complete anonymity, maybe use a web based e-mail service with a masked IP address, maybe even register with a few different nics, then create trouble on the forum in any of a number of ways are over.

It is also unreasonable of anyone to expect a written reply should a post be deleted or edited. As the publishers we are under NO OBLIGATION to publish everything a user wants to post.

Look at all the Letters to the Editor of a daily paper. How many people complain to the papers when their letters are not published? Would they seriously expect the paper to reply? The same applies here.