New User Registrations temporarily prevented

[Lynn Eades]

I am sure that, for what ever it is, Hanno has a good reason for advising that nothing is going to change, for now. It is only about a week ago that he posted.
Thinking about his voluntary work load, it must be time I made another donation. Thank you Hanno, for what you do.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

I am sure that, for what ever it is, Hanno has a good reason for advising that nothing is going to change, for now. It is only about a week ago that he posted.
Thinking about his voluntary work load, it must be time I made another donation. Thank you Hanno, for what you do.

And thank you Lynn, for bearing with me

H.

[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

[Private_collector]

Yeah, I guess it's a lot for one person.

Mijn excuses als ik klonk gefrustreerd. Ik had vergeten u actief waren dit alle door uzelf, Hanno.

Now, I dont know what all that computer speak was about, but i'm glad you do. Some of us are still living in the 20th century. Not the last decade or so, either.

[eddy8men]

lol i've got a freind that's restoring a grant and he can't get on the forum, he was taking it personally. i will tell him to be patient.

thanks for all your hard work hanno

rick

[Robin Craig]

Could I perhaps suggest a vouching system too help speed up people getting on here?

There are some of us who are somewhat known entities and could perhaps have people we know fast tracked in?

Would save some admins some work?

Benefits us all

R

[rob love]

I was saying the same thing just the other day.....new users could be vouched for by current members in good standing. That may reduce some of the backload.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Like I said, the current registration process is labour intensive, there are only two moderators who can put members in the database and we lack time. So for now it just a matter of queuing up and wait patiently - sorry people

H.