I'm not having a dig but it was frustrating.

I had also tried to get a new account with an ISP-provided email account, re-activate an old account and tried to follow the advice you(?) emailed me when I eventually worked out a way to email someone (i.e. not via the registration link). Thankfully the new forum makes things easier and clearer (as a systems developer I like to think I'm no dunce when it comes to IT but my employer (and you) might disagree...).

Just think of all the valuable contributions from me you have missed ; )

back on topic though...I'm also surprised by the relative lack of members and posts on this forum. it also seems that 10% of the membership make 90% of the noise. I'll do my best to make it 11%.