It’s come to my attention recently that there are a lot of automated bots or spammers around registering false WordPress accounts who are attempting to prey on people who don’t keep WordPress updated. I try to do a good job of keeping the WordPress engine up to date here, but I am also sick of getting 3 e-mails a day saying a new user has registered on the site when know full-well that 99% of them are not genuine users!

So here’s what I’ve done. Registration for the site is CLOSED. You can’t register as a Subscriber anymore through the site but you can do one of thse alternative things:

• e-Mail me (Mark Benson) and I can add you by hand
• Use a RSS Feed Aggregator (if you are familiar with these, they are available for most OSs including Amiga)
• Join the Mailing List as we announce everything there too.

If you have registered already you should still be in the user list as a Subscriber, but I can’t guarantee you didn’t get swept out with the fake accounts I deleted. It all gets a bit mazzling when you’re looking at 50 users at a time.

I strongly recommend users join the Mailing List, it’s our quickest way of getting a message out to everyone in the group. We don’t spam users with adverts or unwanted mail and you never know what interesting discussion might crop up!