New User Registrations temporarily prevented

[Hanno Spoelstra]

All,

The main cause is lack of time

• If self-registration is enabled, the forum administrator gets swamped with spammers who have scripts running to register on forums across the internet. So we need a SW upgrade to be able to identify spammers, but for this we need to select a new SW package first as the current one is going nowhere. This takes time.
• So for the meantime we have to revert to manually entering new users. This takes a lot of time.
• In the meantime I am looking for a new forum hosting provider, which again takes time.
• Then we need to migrate the database to the new SW. This takes time.

In short (and I have asked before): if there are any (prospective) members with the required IT skills to solve these problems, please step forward!

Regards,
Hanno