The point is that paying for this forum software isnt required, and the benefits don't justify the cost.

Perhaps you didnt notice what I was pointing out about the HH site because you had not noticed the absence of spam, on the board or via PM. It is a good example of a well maintained and more popular site, proving that the free software can be more secure than the premium paid crap we're using, which in case you didn't know is built on open source software itself.

As for hosting, thats what contracts are for. as long as the terms are right then you go with the lowest bidder.

Problems arose when the person handling the money said they needed too much than what would be reasonable for a community this size on a SHARED server. Kimble rented a dedicated machine them lumped as many clients website as he could onto it saying to each that it was dedicated, with the club footing almost all of the bill.

Guess the best thing to do to get the ball rolling is send any membership renewals to Jon directly, then we can atleast regain some degree of justification for our membership fees

ive had 3 PM spams in the last 48hrs, it dont really bother me, i just delete them, just letting you know for ongoing updates :D

i've had 2 mate,:)

me too, i've banned them. not much else i can do as i dont have access to admin for approving/declining new users

Thats not really the issue here,spam messages aren't really causing us a problem.
The whole where did our subscription go is though.

Richard Kimberly put it in his bank account and went missing

thanks. but i dont require £ from anyone. i have webspace with GTD i can lump all this on, i just havnt had the time or the vbb membership codes

what about if we put some cash together to take Kimberly to court.

Pukka if you can just export the data into a common format and reload it onto some freeware if you want to force a relocation :) sod kimberlys codes

they are getting a bit more daring now

even if they did cock it up a bit