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Subject: Forum working all right -- for now

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Wes

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Date Posted: 18:38:28 04/08/14 Tue

The forum is back to working more or less normally, I think. I'm still going to leave it on moderation for a while, but I haven't had to block any spam messages for a few days.

I don't know what happened to the message database, but apparently it's back to normal, too.

However, since the forum has a tendancy to be a pain in the neck from time to time, I'm considering going to a server-based service that I would have a little closer control over. I am investigating them but have not yet come to a decision. The one that I'm most familiar with has some useful features, but it also looks like it's much too complicated for the relatively simple task I'm asking of it -- it would be something like using a pile driver to crack an egg. There are also many issues I don't understand and the documentation is written in pure geek, which leaves a lot of questions open in my mind.

It's pretty clear to me that if I decide to go that route it will have to wait until my son-in-law finishes his semester -- he's geek enough to be able to perhaps make some sense out of the documentation and explain it to me. In the meantime, I'm going to look for simpler, more understandable software.

So anyway, since the forum is back to running more or less normally for the moment, I'm not going to rush into things. Let's just say that I'm aware of the problem, and just trying to figure out the best way to deal with it. I went to using the voy.com setup many years ago because it was a simple answer to a simple problem, and it has more or less worked ever since. I really don't want to change, but if these problems continue I may have to.

I will keep you posted.

-- Wes

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