No Terry, it shoudn't be normal, no wonder the forum has been so quiet of late
I will of course add your details to the others which will be forwarded tomorrow.
Haymarket in their infinite wisdom decided to raise the threshold which the anti-spam software operates at which has made it more 'severe', but they didn't bother letting either Damian or myself know about it until I began to ask them to add our forumites to their safe user list.
This has meant that far too many of our loyal and in many cases long serving forum members have been forced to complete this word verification every time that they try to post a comment, and this is unacceptable.
Our members deserve far better than this, a point which I intend to raise with the new digital editor whoever they may be if and when Haymarket decide to appoint a replacement for former D.E. Nigel Donnelly who has left for pastures new.
I realsed that something was wrong when this forum was deathly quiet when other caravan forums were thriving as normal well run forums do.
Further investigation revealed what the problem seems to be, but I never realised the scale of the disruption caused to forumites until I began to ask for members to add their names to my list if they were affected by this issue.
I can only apologise and try to have things put right by Haymarket, but Haymarket really need to decide if they want an internet forum and if they do they need to take some responsibility and to support it.
I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm fighting a losing battle here at times.
