Please. Please, none of this... =/
Hi Nightingale. Thanks for your words, of calm AND support.
Sometimes it's hard to be calm, I think we can all say that.
Although the situation of the forum is complex, it's only that way because there's really no-one taking charge and doing the work required, work that I used to do.
And I appreciate the responses to help.
I've been stuck trying to think about the best way to allow people to help out and move forward with the forum. One problem is that just about ANY helper would have to have "powers" over the forum. So I'm trying to find the safest form to do this.
I think that the simplest one thing that could be done that would go a LONG way to opening up the forum is to have someone revise and filter out the real registrees from the spammers. Al messages that arrive for approval are identical except for thier username. And there are thousands in the inbox at this moment. This is why I asked for a special and personal EMail to be sent asking for approval, mentioning username.. These mails are easier to detect, and can point in the direction for approval. Every week, the ones that aren't approved are erased.
It's a relatively simple task, but at the moment, the mailbox is tied to the administrator. There should be a simple soultion to that.
If that simple task could be done, we could begin receiving more members safely.
As it is, the forum is open to present members, so what is missing in that area is just to stimulate and promote convesation. This is a task that requires time, energy and creativity.
