[Thom]

Call me Ahab - this is a completely useless field - all I want to do is sign up for the forums, not bore someone to death with my life story.

[Administrator]

On the contrary, it is very useful. For instance, I now know you are a human being and not a spambot. I'm pretty sure your posts will have to do with the topics, not advertise the perverted things your sister does with farm animals or try to sell us every cell phone under the stars.

Believe me, these steps are necessary nowadays. Without them, this site, and most sites, would become useless adverts on the information highway and you'd ignore them with the same indifference you show to billboards on the real highways.

It's a small price to pay to keep quality high and spam off.