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Recommended service - hourly, according to the GWRUS. Let's work towards that service and towards ensuring all services are used.
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« on: October 23, 2006, 01:50:49 PM »

The world is full of spam!!   

We routinely delete posts from newly registered visitors to this site who make no mention what so ever of public transport, or Wiltshire, or Government Policy or indeed of anything that we consider is relevant, but do advertise via links products such as meat, betting and pharmacuaticals.  People post off topic in this way to get extra visibility for their particular products / services and to help them gain ranking points with the search engines because they're mentioned on our excellent little site.

I've notice a few posts over ther last week or two which have been in the form of general introductions which once again make no mention of any of the topics that we're about here, and I've been scratching my head and asking myself "why". Questions to the poster asking that question don't get answered, and I guess that the poster is trying to get fully registered so that adverts to follow in later posts will automatically be allowed. The policy of deleting spam posts as described in the first paragraph is now extended to these clearly off-topic introductions - we really don't have time to be messing around with such noise, and I've yet to see a single off-topic introduction leading to a legitimate on-topic post from the originator.
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