Thank you - no big panic - there is a tremendous wealth of knowledge here and it must be a lot of work to run things which when I joined I just didn't think of. One takes it for granted as being 'free' - just wondered how the organizers get their reward !

super4 wrote:

just wondered how the organizers get their reward !

By sticking two fingers up to a man known as RRToadhall. He's the Admin on Rangerovers.net and is a complete arsehole. Being an American he is always right (when he often isn't), has no concept of humour (particularly not if it involves sarcasm) and will ban anyone that corrects him when he posts something that is wrong or even thinks about using such disgusting language as the word I just used to describe him (hence the tagline on this site which dates back to when the Defender came out on coils after years Series Landy production on leaf springs and me and Gordon had both got a ban for on the other site for using). Over a beer or 5, Gordon and me came up with the idea of an alternative forum, one with no profanity filter, no rules, a virtual pub where people with similar interests can sit and chat away to their heart's content. When the .pub domain names were released, it just seemed obvious. Gordon did the initial setting up and the software that forms the forum is open source and free for anyone to use. The site is hosted on a server from Gordon's own domain company. Costs are minimal but when it does crash for whatever reason, the Gordon is the only one that can give it a kick and get it working again (which can be inconvenient if he happens to be at work at the time). He could give us the password to his server but then we'd all see his stash of.........

Oh, there are rules, the Prime Directive being Don't Be An Arse :-)