While it is an administrative action that you can't us the PM feature until you've made one post here, recently, the board panel was updated and it was noted that there was an option added to disallow new members of less than a week in membership to post external links and/or email addresses.
This option was defaulted to "active" without my knowledge.
I've since been made aware of this and have turned the feature OFF.
Our forum still maintains a policy of posting any link that is air gun related, and some not, as long as it is not spam, at our friendly site.
Ironically, this new feature was enacted to stop spamers and those out to otherwise harm and hack sites like ours.
While we appreciate the new "whistles and bells', we had no idea that it was active and we apologize for not knowing about it.
It's just another case of a lock actually keeping the honest man out . . .
Sincerely,
The Management.
This option was defaulted to "active" without my knowledge.
I've since been made aware of this and have turned the feature OFF.
Our forum still maintains a policy of posting any link that is air gun related, and some not, as long as it is not spam, at our friendly site.
Ironically, this new feature was enacted to stop spamers and those out to otherwise harm and hack sites like ours.
While we appreciate the new "whistles and bells', we had no idea that it was active and we apologize for not knowing about it.
It's just another case of a lock actually keeping the honest man out . . .
Sincerely,
The Management.