A poster JacktheHat has a message for me and I can't contact him until I have three posts. This is the second one. Whoever thought up this crazy rule?

The administrators put this in to stop people joining BE just to spam members with all sorts of adverts etc. It's for us, the members, own protection, and I think an excellent idea, in any case you now have 3 posts so can look at the message.

They want to keep all of the Financial Services ads to themselves! - But that is just me being cynical! If you hadn't noticed with all of the advetising threads, the site is owned and run by Financial Services Wallahs!

Just give a respone to this post, and you should be able to contact on Private Mail

Hi Jack, just to let you know I have put your name in my Buddy list,hope you don't mind, thanks for everything you have told me so far. If you ever hear from anyone or know of anyone who lives in another country and the Philipines, and gets their British state pension annual increases please let me know.
Thanks again.
Noshow.

Very cynical!!! Its to stop some of the spam - and if you had the slightest idea how much of it we remove each day you'd support ANY anti-spam idea

Well Jack take your slap like a Man , i did twice its ok