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Old 11-11-2006, 10:13 AM
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Good news! After much toil and sweat and, I dunno, peanut brittle, Antony found the problem with our image verification system and fixed it. Spambots should no longer be able to register.

I believe I've deleted all the ones we had. There were hundreds of them, so I'm sorry if I accidentally deleted any real members (but I doubt it). I also deleted some members who registered over a year ago and had never posted. A year seems like a reasonable pruning interval; I know forums that cut non-posters off at a month.

The only thing I'll miss is the hilariously inflated member count. It would be nice to really have 650 members. Especially when this site is six years old and some sites that are just one year old have thousands of members.

But I'm not bitter.
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