Hi all,

This just came in to my alerts. At the 1st link below, Roxy Music's 40th Box Set is part of a voting process for the 'Living Legend Award' at the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour in November.

Roxy Music - 'The Complete Studio Recordings' and other bands are listed here:

http://www.contactmusic.com/news/zz-top-named-living-legends_1390494

The following link is where you can cast your vote now! All you have to do is Click VOTE. You have the option to get a newsletter, which I did after I cast my vote.

http://awards.classicrockmagazine.com/reissue-of-the-year/roxy-music

Let's help make Roxy Music the winners they are!

Send this info to your family, friends, dogs, cats, & your dentist. Saw mine today and I'm numb. On my way there I dug Country Life and all its joys.

thnx for the heads up....done.

my dogs (all four GSDs) have been told to cast their votes too. my cats (three of 'em) ignored me.

hope everyone is voting! vote again! and then some more! thanks! e

Done! Fingers crossed for a good result...

OK, OK, Erland!

If you post almost daily about the same subject it gets a bit wearing and the website might end up mistaking YOU for a spammer!

I know from conversations with J.O'B just how difficult it can be to block junk messages. Given that he has a young family and a very full-time job, it must be a headache he could do without.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that VRM is a loss making labour of love for J.O'B.

I think you can only vote once anyway

Roxy, I've already voted several times. Give 'er!

Smudge, I manage over 10 websites and most of those
spammers that sign-up up here are from China. They
are human and take the time to sign-up. I have most of
that country blocked from viewing my sites. they get
a 403 page - sometimes if you get a "403 "Forbidden:
You don't have permission to access this server", that
means your IP address has been blocked, purposely.
Gets more complicated, that's generally it.

I've managed a a forum and I can spot them easily,
and would delete them immediately. For example,
'Tecoisle' is a spammer and is still here. It would me
a few seconds to delete him.

I've sent J.O'B emails on how to block IP addresses
to forward to his web people. I'm an Internet
Security & Privacy expert as well, (that's why I don't
use google, very creepy, I use startpage).

I asked 'masteradmin' (which isn't John) about this and
to delete a spammer, and he didn't answer, plus, he disabled
his PM so I cannot send him messages, so I think John should
fire him promptly.

So viva is an easy target, unless John assigns a new 'masteradmin'. Keep voting.

Truth be told, these kinds of awards aren't worth much more than the pixels they're written on.

I think I'll wait until the Deluxe Edition of the First Roxy Album is nominated...