Software Upgrade and down time

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AlanB

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Starting around 9:00 PM EDT through midnight approximately, the board was offline to allow for a major software update to the board. We apologize for the lack of prior notice, but Anthony's schedule for school as well as the urgency of dealing with the growing spam problems, required the urgent upgrade.

You will notice many differences to how things look on the board, especially when you go to post using the new software. There will probably be a few other smaller changes during the week as we tweak the settings within the new software. One bigger change that will be coming shortly will be the need for all guests to type in a code each and everytime they post. We regret that this is necessary, but the moderating staff is currently shoveling out between 75 to 100 spam posts every day now. While most of that is never visible to the members and guests, it is still a fair amount of work for the moderating staff. Hopefully this change will slow down the spammers, without hurting the real guests too much.

Of course we encourage all guests to register and avoid this problem, but the choice is yours.

Should anyone have questions or problems with the new software, please let us know either by PM or in this topic.

Again our apologies for the down time on Sunday evening.
 
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