You may have missed the following editing comment as it - and the spam that was said to be the reason for imposing closure on the first thread (for the second time) - was inserted to the start of this thread, and said to be for the following reason.

This Spam was undeleted and transferred from the previous "Closed and Deleted" thread. Shambles doesn't believe my statement that the previous thread was closed because it had become a Spam target - well, here's his Spam. Hope he likes it.
-Joe Offer-

As these spam posts are judged OK to be placed here by the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing team - perhaps they could just safely have been left in the original thread (along with the other spam posts placed earlier in that thread by the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team)?

It was judged that the earier thread was a safe dumping ground for spam posts - so where is the logic in closing that one - and then placing the new spam posts deleted from that one into this thread as well?

Perhaps they can be removed by the person who placed them there?

Spam posts are either all equally good or equally bad - I suggest that seeing them abused by our 'moderators' for use in their own personal disputes with individual posters in public - is not setting a very positive example to posters or other 'moderators'.

There may be a few fools posting on our forum - but very few posters are as foolish as the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team obviously judges our forum to be - in seriously expecting posters to accept the justification he provides for these unecessary and personally motivated actions.

Or perhaps our 'moderators' could just delete any spam posts that appear in any thread - as our forum is told and what most of them seem to consider is is what they are supposed to do with spam posts? For we do all know what spam is - and no matter how irritating this may be - we do manage quite well to simply ignore what few posts slip past our automatic filters.

By all means delete spam posts - but please don't close or delete any more perfectly acceptable threads along with all their posts. This is throwing the baby out with the bathwater and it is simply NOT proportionate to the problem.

Following this logic - should all threads be subjected to such spam postings - then will the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team judge it to be a proportionate response - to close the entire forum?

I fear the answer would probably be yes.
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The following thread has been closed (for a second time) http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=93659&messages=1827&page=1&desc=yes for the following reason.

Gee, I'm so sorry, but I have to close this thread. It's getting hit with a lot of Spam - four in two minutes. If you need to start another discussion on this topic, post a link to this thread.
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-