Howdy, y'all.
In my haste to help rid the constant influx of spammers that have intruded into our little oasis-on-the-Net, I used my newly appointed powers as Site Admin to initiate a ban on some of the offending bozos.
It turns out that these spammers have ways of disguising their IP addresses. While I thought I had knocked out some of the worst offenders, I managed to ban two huge blocks of America Online subscribers.
Several of our membership were in those blocks, and were inadvertantly banned. I believe have restored access to all our legitimate members who were banned; but I'm sure not everyone who got kicked out has contacted one of the Admins or Moderators to be re-instated.
If you know of anyone who has been banned from the site in the last few days, please tell them to contact me at the e-mail address in my signature line, and I will get them re-instated.
My apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by my actions. I'm having growing pains as a new Admin.
Back in the saddle, again!