Post by bphlpt » Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:29 am

We've missed you 5eraph! I hope everything is well with you. You too, Ryan.



I understand your feelings about not much activity over the last year or more. It seems the same slump has happened at MSFN and Wincert, among other technical forums. I guess a lot of it is because the decreasing ability to modify the newer MS OS, and the decreasing user base of the older MS OS. There will always be a "market" for these kinds of forums: there are still die hard users of DOS and Win 98, after all, and I'm in no mood to move on from Win 7, not to mention those that favor Win 2K and Win XP.



If it's mainly the aggravation of the spammers, could stricter spam blocking and new member postings be put into effect? I know of another phpBB board that had some success in using ZB Block. You could even no longer allow guests to browse the forum, ie require membership to even see what is here. Since the activity has dropped, the added workload might not be too bad, especially if there were more than just Ryan who had access to approve any new members. If none of those approaches are appealing, I appreciate that you are planning to keep the board as read-only, at least for a while, to not lose the info that's here.



I hope the board survives, in one form or another. It holds good memories for me as one of the very first boards where I really became involved.



Cheers and Regards, my friends,

John