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How to get access to the forum
Anyone can read the forums at http://forum.opensourceecology.org/

However, to be able to post new discussions or to comment on existing discussions, you'll have to apply for a forum membership. I'd like to allow any user to join our forum without the need for manual approval, but this would turn this forum into a paradise for spammers, and would require more time from us to remove spam messages and delete the corresponding user accounts.

Usually, all forum applicants are approved, except those whose email looks suspicious (me@test.com, skseopclwq@yeah.net) and those with a suspicious membership request text. By that, I mean:
 * empty text
 * sentences that do not make sense, like "And she navigation boldly arrested. Furniture frequently slow night."
 * messages asking me to buy "purple moncler vest", "green ski jacket", "cheap viagra", "cialis", and so on
 * canned messages (those that look like they were copy/pasted from a collection)

In essence, all applicants are approved except those who look like a spam bot or a spammer, according to the admin's intuition.

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