After almost eight years online, the signal to noise ratio amongst the membership has fallen to a point where the site in its current state is no longer viable as it was intended. We launched Australian Diggers on 26 January 2000 to be a place where both serving and ex-service people could relax and intelligently discuss their service and their contribution to Australia. Past experience has taught us that warnings are an inneffectual mechanism for ensuring that forum members respect the forums they are a part of. If this continues to happen then two things will swiftly occur without notice; 1. This site as it currently exists will close, and 2. Its new incarnation will be very private. Inevitably this will silence a few voices worth listening to, and we sincerely regret that. But it will also silence a lot of voices we don't want here. Those who really do want to participate will find a way. The idiots won't; they'll mostly go elsewhere and become someone else's problem, and ruin someone else's forum. Consequently WEF midnight 15 July 2007 this site will close.