Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:53 am by lbesq
There are folks here that have been part of this forum for much longer than myself. We had at least three "Issues" with the forum that I can remember. One major one that I started to work on was of the 8000+ members, a great many of them were spam. That was with the old Wordpress program and not much in the way of filtering out the bad guys. I started to do that once Jim and I got to know each other a bit and then we had the big Issue with our provider having a major hack on Wordpress sites in around October 2011, It took the better part of a month to start back up and almost all info was lost, then there was a minor bump in December of 2011 that caused people to not be able to log on, (I will eventually get to the task of weeding out registrations from back then that have not been active from that time). Lastly we had our big Down time this year, that was due to an error in getting a certain fee paid on time. I want to Thank Jim Hadfield for all he has done for this forum and wish him well. I want to Thank John Hansen for what he did to get us back up and running this last time, and for the work he will be doing in the back ground. We hope to have an upgrade that does not create issues sometime in the near future.
As for now, If anyone knows of any old members, please feel free to invite them back. I personally go through all registrations mostly everyday and approve those that are, as near as I can determine, valid. I seem to average between 15-20 registrations a day. Auto blocking of bad IP's is not working, otherwise it would be much less. Hence the desire for the upgrade on my part.
If anyone thinks that there is a spammer that is on the site, Please send me an email or message through the site. I will check it out and deal with it. Feel free to contact me anytime. I enjoy all the posts on the site.
Lloyd Bledsoe