Steve, I'm not sure you've entirely grasped what I've been suggesting but the upshot it we cannot realistically continue with a site that is continually being locked out to new members owing to the spam issues. That is all I am suggesting we sort out and if it can't be done with this existing site then we would all have to stick together to replace it with a new one. If that is not an option then I'll duck out from trying to sort things out altogether. It's only because I've known Jay for years I thought I should be the one to try and do it.
With regards to how the forum is funded it's all paid for by Jay. My solution is to transfer the ownership (or at least the bills) from Jay's account into the TR Drivers Club. The existing moderators would carry on exactly as they have for years and nothing would change other than we'd upgrade the forum software to stop the spam. But as I say, if we are unable to do it to the existing site then we would just leave it here as an archive and start a new duplicate where we would all carry on. In a very short time we'd probably find it's all thriving again and we have none of the problems we are having today.
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