Forum is back from a failure

[Robert]

This did not happen at a good time for me, but I've stolen some hours from my rest and sanity and eventually the forum is up again. In order to get it here, I've had to erase much of the customisations I've created over the years. The immediate result this morning to my labours of the last few nights was that the forum has been spammed and the moderators currently lack the proper tools to easily remove this stuff.
I'm going to get some breakfast, throw away the rest of my Saturday and begin to re-secure the forum from this sort of thing. I don't know why I bother.

[paul.spencer]

Thanks again for your efforts Robert. I saw that the site had been spammed. Looks good now.

Cheers, Paul

[Captain Echidna]

Thanks a lot Robert. I have often wondered how many thousands of litres of diesel you have prevented being burnt keeping this forum going. I can help people with their questions (and have helped quite a few by PM's) have been helped by quite a few, and have helped keep my sanity through the highs (getting 200L of oil from Dave in Sydney, meaning my 4000K trip used about 120L of diesel, towing a caravan) and the lows (pulling the injector pump out again from the landcruiser)

[Robert]

There may some more bumps ahead as I do some other upgrades and start to put things back together. I'll try not to take it offline for too long, but I just thought I should post up a warning first so that it is not unexpected.

[neil]

Thanks Robert for your effort,its been hard missing my Fix for the day.

Robert I noticed about a week ago we seemed to be getting spam and
when you would search for members older posts it would show the wrong
member as the original poster. I just thought this was my PC playing up,
so maybe it has been building for a few weeks.

Thanks again
Neil

[Tony From West Oz]

Robert,
Thanks for your prompt response to the emergency.
I wish my skills were such that I could assist you manage the site. Alas, they are inadequate for that task.


Perhaps this might be a good time to remind members that this site is not self supporting. You can make a Donation to the operation of the site, which will lessen the financial cost to Robert, in having the site hosted.

Best wishes,
Tony

[Fitian]

Rob,

I do thank you for your constant efforts in keeping this forums on line.

I can not put my appreciation into words.

Thank you a million.

Fitian

[jonescg]

Hey! Great work getting it up and running again! We all really appreciate your maintenance on this forum. It's such a good resource and we're glad it's up and running again.
Cheers,
CHRIS

[Robert]

It may be down again soon. I've decided to bite the bullet and do some fairly major upgrades which I've been procrastinating over for a while now. Perhaps if I had done these sooner, this outage may not have happened.
The forum is still far from perfect, though all the essentials may be functioning. Once I have finished these upgrades, then I'll begin imlementing and fixing all the stray bits.
I may do this later tonight, or I may wait for tomorrow morning. I'll be taking the forum offline while I do it, so look out for it.

[mussopete]

Gday Robert i,m more of a reader of this forum than one who puts in hours of input , if it wasn,t for this forum i would not be cruising down the highway smelling like fish n chips. Thanks for keeping this forum alive.

Mussopete