I am on holiday in Benidorm and have just interrupted my sunbathing to deal with this matter! I might have posted sooner had I not been away but the situation now seems to be escalating.
Can I ask you all to please behave in a sensible and courteous manner to each other and stop this unnecessary bickering which spoils the Forum for other users. Surely no user would cheat, it is only a meant to be a light hearted Crossword Forum not a daggers drawn duel at dawn!
I will clarify our rules - these stipulate one user per email address. Therefore, if a user has multiple email addresses then he\she can join the Forum under different user names. If this sort of trouble continues, then Ash will have to resort to making it one user per computer. This would be unfair on those households with only one computer where several members of a family wish to become users of the Forum.
As regards the comment by Les40 ‘Maybe the owners can see that there is some truth in what I say and that is why it's been left alone to save embarrassment to certain posters’. I would like to make it absolutely clear. The matter has been left alone for one reason, and one reason only, THE FORUM IS FREE TO USE AND WE THEREFORE HAVE LIMITED STAFF TIME TO DEAL WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT OCCUR. I don’t care in the slightest about embarrassing certain posters and I also do not let anyone ‘curry favour’. Out of necessity, I cannot deal with every squabble which occurs. I just try to do my job to the best of my ability in the time I have available!
Please, please forget this silly argument and let the Forum get back to normal, thanks.