Peg, membership only options have been mentioned here and elsewhere. The question that remains unanswered is what the loss would be in terms of useful music related guest posts (and there are many) if such a system was adopted here.

My feeling remains that the losses would far outweigh the annoyances we get with an open system and that most, if not all of these annoyances can be dealt with (and are elsewhere) simply by ignoring posts and threads we don't like.

Jon