It's an open forum anyone can join at anytime so as fast as the moderators delete the spam more gets posted and as fast as the admins ban the accounts posting the spam more get opened, as I said it is an endless battle. I knew it was a bit risky posting in here as tensions are clearly running high but at the end of the day no matter what changes get made some people are going to take exception to them. I do no even know if this change was in direct response to the spam issue, as I said it would be great if people new to the forums invested some time doing some reading before creating new threads etc and using the search function to do some research and I guess I'm hoping this change will encourage people to do that, only time will tell. anyway... I'm off to delete some spam. I'll leave it at that and I hope this sub forum calms down in a day or two when people get used to the change.