This forum has always been a free and open forum that ussers can register for and start posting immediately.  Unfortunately, the "open" aspect has been changed as a result of a number of X-rated links to porn sites that were discovered (and immediately deleted) last week.
 
New registrants will now be required to register a login screen name and email address but wait for a password via return email before they can actually access the forum and post questions.  We apologize for the inconvenience but there is a "BOT" out there hitting forums such as this one so we had to add another level of security.