Spurious messages

[John Cranna]

Dear Tony

there have been a number of odd/downright weird messages lately - ie kin66844 ('beam connection') and jennifermilly ('timber hip rafter design'). I see that there is no vetting of meesages coming in. Is there anything that can be done to protect the forum from these oddities?

[Tony Bryer]

Thanks for your concern, John. I've set up the forum so that messages appear immediately rather than needing to be vetted first, so that if someone else sees a question before I do (I'm asleep whilst most of you are still hard at work!) and knows the answer, they can respond. This does mean that there is a steady trickle of spam messages, but generally they are deleted within hours and the originator permanently barred.

[mikeyb50]

I recieved a letter from building control with a point saying
'Post supporting ridge beam should be the same width as the beam. Please amend and provide the connection details at base and apex.Clarify if post is bearing on to the spine wall.'

I am using superbeam 4 and used a 100 x 100mm post to support 203 x 203 ridge beam. I have prosteel also but it does not have timber post. What type of connection detail does council engineer expect to see

[Tony Bryer]

John

I should have looked harder when you made your first comment - I have only just found that the part of the system that notifies me of new posts has not been working so the spam ones just quietly crept in. Am having a clean up now!