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Gerald Lawrence
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I have made a change to this Forum to allow new members to Register and then be able to post messages, instead of being a guest and only being allowed to read messages. We as a community welcome all new messages from genuine Ruby Murray fans and friends, from any part of the world. We are particularly keen to learn how you became a fan, which songs are your favourites, and to hear about any personal stories or memories that you would like to share with us. So if you are a regular guest visitor, then please consider joining us in posting messages.

To be able to post, you must first Register, and the procedure for doing this is explained when you click on the word Register at the top right of this page. Just follow the instructions. If you have any trouble reading the CAPTCHA check words, you can request a new set by clicking on the icon which represents two arrows pointing at each other at the top of the small red column to the right of the yellow box (this makes sense when you are looking at it!) Please also take note of my comment further down this Topic thread in which I ask you to use a sensible-looking name and email during the Registration process, as this will save valuable time later on.

When you have completed the Registration process, I will be notified automatically, and you will receive a couple of messages in your email that are generated automatically letting you know that the Administration has been notified of your application. The next step is that you will receive a Private Message from me. This will not be another email, it will appear as a Private Message on this Forum (often abbreviated to PM) - so keep an eye on the left hand end of the pale blue line at the top of this page where you will see a notification that you have received a new message. It will look like something this:

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Just click on the words "1 new messages", then click on Inbox in the left hand column and you will find a message headed "New Account" and this will be from me. Click on the title to read it, click on SENDREPLY and send me a message back and that's it - I will make you a new member with full posting rights! :D

We are NOT AT ALL interested in spam messages, people trying to sell things, curry, dating, or people trying to plug their own websites. We are most definitely not interested in anything pornographic. When you Register to post messages, you have to agree to conform to our rules before proceeding, so please keep to the rules. New Members will be first vetted before being allowed to post, and thereafter will be monitored closely to see if any rules are violated. If that is the case I will take immediate steps to block them from this website and remove any unacceptable posts.

I do apologise most sincerely to genuine new members for what appears to be a very heavy-handed approach to you joining us, but existing members cannot forget the stupid and at times disgusting messages that some people posted here before they could be deleted, and we don't want to go through that again!

A Warm Welcome awaits all genuine new Ruby Murray fans!
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Well done Gerald, let us hope that we can now see new members joining and that they have interesting stories to relate. I am delighted that you have the power to take action with any unwanted 'posts'.

Come ahead friends, there is a wealth of interest available including photos, stories, video clips and song excerpts in brief and in full.

You are very welcome.

Adios Amigos. Bernie.

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Here here! Welcome to all new friends!

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Since I made my first posting on the top of this thread on April 13th, we have had 22 applications from "new members". While on the face of it this seems very good, all but one have been from people with silly names and/or silly email addresses. I go through the lengthy process of allowing them to be members but not allowing them to post anything in order to protect the good name of this website, and at the same time invite them to send me a Private Message to just let me know their interest in Ruby. As you have probably guessed, so far not one single person has replied to my PM. I allow one week for a reply and then delete the member from our Members list.

So it seems that as things stand at the moment, 100% of applications are from people not interested in Ruby Murray. As a result, I have changed my procedure slightly. If I get any more applications from people with silly names or emails, I will delete them immediately to save all the time and effort I have to put in when it is going to come to that anyway.

If you are a genuine Ruby fan wishing to join this community, then please use a sensible-looking name otherwise I am afraid I might miss your valuable application.

Many thanks to all prospective new and genuine fans!
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Gerald,

I fully endorse your change of plans, it is such a pity that there are those who choose to spoil things for the genuine people. Your move will mean that the door remains open for people who ARE genuine and I am pleased about that.

Well done Gerald.

Adios Amigo. Bernie

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Hi Gerald. Just what I expected, no replies, not to worry at least you tried. The thing is a lot of guest that appear on the site could actually be members, like me for instance I look in the site everyday, but I do not sign in so I show up as a guest. We also have to remember that a lot of Ruby fans won't be with us anymore, I have been a fan since 1955, and I am getting on a bit, like you, then we have another member who is must older than us, so we can't really expect many more to join.
Regards
John.

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Bernie Burgess wrote:Gerald,

I fully endorse your change of plans, it is such a pity that there are those who choose to spoil things for the genuine people. Your move will mean that the door remains open for people who ARE genuine and I am pleased about that.

Well done Gerald.

Adios Amigo. Bernie
Yes, I do hope that the great care I am showing in not allowing anything indecent to be posted does not put off anyone who is really interested in joining us. It seems that many of the 22 applications are from things called "bots" and they do not reveal the real name. It is very difficult for me to know who is genuine, but with this change of plan I am really hoping that the baddies can be got rid of easily, and the fans won't mind taking just that extra bit of trouble in order to get permission to join us.
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Jk wrote:Hi Gerald. Just what I expected, no replies, not to worry at least you tried. The thing is a lot of guest that appear on the site could actually be members, like me for instance I look in the site everyday, but I do not sign in so I show up as a guest. We also have to remember that a lot of Ruby fans won't be with us anymore, I have been a fan since 1955, and I am getting on a bit, like you, then we have another member who is must older than us, so we can't really expect many more to join.
Some of the guests may in fact be "bots" (see above). I personally have put a tick in the box which logs me in every time I visit, but I know not everyone does that. But it is in the interests of allowing any genuine fan to join us that I have made the Registration changes, and I hope we get at least one new member!
We are sadly as you say becoming a smaller community, but we are not going to give up now, are we John! If someone we know can go over 80 then so can we! :D
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OOOCCHHH!!!!

I'll have you know that I am still only 27 and as I have said so frequently - Anything else is a Communist LIE.

The old fella.

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Age is just a number guys! ;-)

I always tick the box to log me on automatically each visit but for some reason it doesn't do this. However, that could be just my laptop.

Gerald, thanks for all the time you spend in checking out these new members and weeding out the time wasters.

Martin

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This is just to let you know that I have very reluctantly had to return this Forum to the state where no new members can be allowed to apply for registration.

We have had a total of 105 applications, most of them from places unlikely to have any interest in Ruby, like China, Ukraine, Russia, and all of them with strange names and email addresses. This morning has been particularly bad in this respect, and has caused me to spend quite a bit of time getting rid of them for good.

Unfortunately, those who I have allowed have not yet been particularly active in posting anything, but they will of course remain members in the hope that they will. However, the statistics show clearly that the people who come here as guests, and who then apply to become members are in the majority of cases not interested in Ruby nor the rest of us fans.

I am sorry it has come to this, but it is taking up too much of my time to police this forum, and the last thing anybody wants is a repetition of the dreadful postings that we had to endure a couple of years ago.
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Hello Gerald. Yes I saw all them that came through yesterday, I have been watching very carefully over the last few weeks and can understand that it must be causing you a lot of work to get rid of them. I do think you have done the right thing and gone back to blocking new members. I said at the beginning that I did not think we would get many new members all Ruby fans are getting old or no longer with us, so we have to stick with what we have, its been a good journey from 1999 don't you think.
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That's sad Gerald but very understandable and I am sure we all understand. It's just a shame if anybody genuine does try to become a member and can't but it seems there is no other solution to this.

Thanks for all your work Gerald.

Yes John, it has been a remarkable journey from 1999.

Martin

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Hello Friends,

I thoroughly agree with John regarding the age of existing Ruby fans and the numbers of those who are likely to become new members. There is of course another fact that might have been considered and that is that there could well be a whole new generation of people who, through being inquisitive, might be logging on and learning about the 50s era and Ruby's sensational success. Having said that I still agree with Gerald's action, we cannot allow small minded people to invade and infect our cherished website as was the case not so long ago.

Adios Amigos. Bernie

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Friends,

Even though it is/was very annoying to have strange postings from places as far away as China, I take heart in the fact that the website is being viewed all over the world, an amazing fact. We have had postings from 'down under' where quite a number of Ruby's fans are living "G'day Aussies".

Adios Amigos Bernie.

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