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Absent administrator ?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:56 pm
by dannybee
The new home of the forum is being worked on right now, the door will be when it goes live http://www.holographyforum.org the links on that page will not be live until end of January :D

Absent administrator ?

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:04 pm
by jsfisher
John Klayer wrote:What would a new person need to do to be the administrator? Would it require more than a PC and time? Some other equipment?
Nothing more in the way of equipment than you already have and use to access the forum. As for time, the occasional new member would need to be approved. There is also a certain amount of policing of posts. If and when a spammer slips past the registration process, there may be many posts that need to be corralled and deleted, and sometimes (but never with this friendly community :mrgreen:) a discussion may get overheated to the point an admin needs to intervene.

It all sounds much worse than it really is.

Absent administrator ?

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 5:07 pm
by lobaz
John Klayer wrote:What would a new person need to do to be the administrator? Would it require more than a PC and time? Some other equipment?
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Sometimes it is necessary to solve technical problems such as DNS mess, hack attempts etc. The administrator should know how to face it or at least to have someone who can