[johnfowles]

As it is my thread that got hijacked by this cretin.I think I should say something else
Earlier I was intending to fairly simply say that everybody is entitled to his/her/its opinion, and no doubt there are others here who have grimaced when Gord does not quite make it.I consider myself blessed because I remember the golden days of the late 60s when Gord's voice was truly sublime (right up to at least the 1975 Red Rocks concert) and it is true that in the late 70's my interest wained as I perceived that his voice was deteriorating.
No doubt this is why I personaly favour the United Artists' five albums
But in fact my two favourite songs are now
Let It Ride from EOM and restless from Waiting For You
Now we know that your poison pen or itching typing finger has spewed forth irrelevant and highly opinionated bile before on the Newsgroup.
where you described Harmony as
"The album is weak. Probably in his bottom 3 and certainly the worst since EOM".
Many of us who are not as blinkered as you thoroughly enjoy that remarkable album
and your analysis and remarks about Cathy was out of court by miles as well as insufferably rude.
Anyway as far as spam and troll postings go I suggested to Char that Florian should consider
incorporating a CAPTCHA system to ensure that only real live humans could enrol as members (since it is blindingly obvious that much of the spam is robotically generated) and I said I would look into it
For those who do not know CAPTCHA as shown in the wiki at:-\http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
is a catchy acronym for
"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."
and "is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test, because it is administered by a machine and targeted to a human, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is typically administered by a human and targeted to a machine"
This interested me hugely because Alan Turing was a computer pioneer and one time head of Hut 8 at the famous Bletchley Park where the secret codes of the German Enigma cyphering machines were broken a subject I find fascinating and because
"In 1926, at the age of 14, he went on to Sherborne School, a famous and expensive public school in Dorset"
Sherborne in England is my birthplace although I never went to the "Public" i.e. Private fee paying school
But to the splendid local boys "public" i.e. free (County Council run) "Grammer" school
Whatever I would love to add a captcha feature to my web site as my guestbooks have on occasion had stoopid spam attacks
and if and when I succeed I will pass my knowledge on to Florian
you all have seen and used captchas
here is an example