Forum: Notes and Tips from Top Link, the Board Owner

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Dear Members, As you know, this site is privately funded by me, assisted with a small amount of advertising revenue generated by our Google Adverts that are displayed here. Sadly this is not really enough to maintain the site and fund our article competition, let alone fund further development...

Dear Members, You will notice that our forum has a rather new look. Not sure that I like it, but this is due to a major upgrade in our forum software. In am sure we will all get used to it in time.......

Please do not use this board just to advertise your own products and services. The forums are for discussion and knowledge sharing, not overt advertising. If would like to have paid advertising on this site, then by all means contact me or use the Google Advert facility as others have done. ...

Hi, Due to rather a lot of spammy PMs lately, we have tightened up the use of PMs by only allowig their use for regular members and above. Regular members are members who have been members for more than 7 days and have made more than 10 posts. Not a huge hurdle to overcome.

Hi, You will notice a slight change in the forum listing. The jobs section has been moved down a bit, and there is a new Surveys and Articles section lower down too.

Why should you register? Well, you can view/read all the forums/posts here, but you cannot actually 'post' information yourself, until you register. So you need to register to really participate and get the most out of the Board. Also, in the future we hope to provide a library of...

Hi, if you want to post images with your text it is quite easy to do. The images need to actually be hosted on thwe web somewhere, and you actually create a link to them. So first you have to upload the image to a hosting website, then paste the link here. Not that hard really. Go here...

Hi, The membership and popularity of the Supply Chain Focus Discussion Forum continues to grow, so thank you all for your participation. If we are to really to get this going as a global hub of information and exchange of ideas, that growth needs to continue and accelerate. The more members...

It is extremely valuable to members to provide reserach material, documents, software models and the like. But please make sure you consider commercial confidentiality. If the material is not owned by you, permission of the owner may be required before it can be made publically available. ...

Like many sites of this type, we are experiencing an increased volume of spam postings. Basically this is where people register as members, only to post adverts for mobile phones or links to porn sites. Naturally we try to delete these posts as soon as possible and also take a number of...

I thought it might be useful for board members to know some of the admin settings that I have used. I will keep this list updated if they change for any reason. Minimum User Name Length = 2 characters Maximum User Name Length = 25 characters Minimum characters per post - 10 Maximum...

In order to make the board easier to use and navigate, I have reduced the number of categories. This 'clumps' threads of a similar topic together more effectively. No existing threads or posts have been deleted in the process, they have just been consolidated under a single category. If we...

A Happy New Year to all our bulletin board members. As you can see we are starting to grow our membership quite well, being only 3 months old. Please encourage your friends and colleagues to sign up too. If anyone is willing to provide web links to the site also, we would be most grateful as...

You might be wondering about some of the perceived perils of joining this bulletin board, such as opening yourself up to receiving loads of Spam emails and offers. Rest assured. A. This board is purely a community or 'forum' to promote the discussion and exchange of ideas and experiences. ...