FORUM CHANGE

[VK4ADC]

I don't see anything but the login screen when not logged in, I don't think that's a good idea as there is no way a potential member can check out the forum, also it seems a little elitist to me.
Is there any way that the posts can be viewed, but no one can post spam etc.
I don't mind having to login to post, but I think viewing should be public.
John

John

It has nothing whatsoever to do with elitism. It is purely trying to manage the forum well, keep server response times low and without wasteful data traffic.

I actually spend hours each day tracking down IP addresses of visitors to see their origins, if outside of Aus then do a lookup on the spam database to see if the IP is the known source of spam, manually lock out access to that IP group. Then I often find the same source has switched IP addresses to a new block and the process continues another loop.

If everyone who is registered always logged in then most of that process is virtually eliminated, however despite asking on the Forum for users to do so all of the time, many failed to conform.  If I immediately see the callsign/IP combination listed then I need do no more.

I would be happy to 're-open' the Forum immediately provided all users agree to log in all of the time.

Doug, Admin