Just by way of explanation I thought I should put this message here to tell you that the forum is offline because it is vulnerable to hacker attack. This was discovered when it happened the other week.
There is a fix for the problem and I will get it together and implement it when I've gotten past the repairing of the 1977 Mini to get it re-registered so I can drive to get my groceries again.
And the old forum was vulnerable to spammers, robots still try to whammy it with spam even now it's switched off.
It's a dilema.