There's "lurkers" and then there's "lurkers" and the SysAdmin didn't specify which he was refering to. Lurker's who never post at all are, IMHO, Post Virgins, the truest lurkers of them all, but that does not mean someone who has posted isn't a lurker. Using myself as an example, I don't know if I could truly call myself a lurker, as, if you average out my posts per day based on the year I signed up, it comes to roughly once every 5 days. Not what I might consider true lurker status. However, I've posted more in the early years than in recent years, so you could say I have become a lurker. Now, those that have only had a handful of posts since 2002? Posting at, let's say, 1 post per year? Yea, I think they qualify. To me, lurker status is the frequency at which you post.