Is protecting of your user name the only advantage of this registration process? If someone registers before me as Wizard, does this mean I can't use that name to post here? I gotta be the Wizard or I'll turn into a pumpkin :-) Some people have posted under my post name but since my ISP is Linkline and nobody else seems to have this ISP then these imposters are exposed. Could a person register more than once under differant user names? Do more rules like this registration make a forum that is more restricted in some sense and less open. Would the forum get kinda dull if the " Wacko's " didn't chime in from time to time :-) Do we win any prizes if we register early :-) Rules bad, Forum good!