Dear gang,

Please be aware that there are unauthorized advertising and donation messages appearing within the posts of threads on the message board. As you all know, this is a Diamond forum and there should be absolutely NO advertising anywhere within the community. As you also know, I accept full responsibility for the financial costs of the board and do not solicit donations. As I told you in the past, your job here is just to have a good time.

I have sent a very angry message to Kevin Feng, the owner of Aimoo, excoriating him for this latest problem. I'm as angry about this as I was when all the forums crashed 2 years ago as a result of their disastrous conversion from version 7.0.1 to 8.0.1. Kevin is a good guy and I have worked closely with him to improve the Aimoo forums since the conversion debacle, but unfortunately there have still been ongoing problems that just seem to consistently pop up. Notwithstanding, as a result of our collaborative efforts, the Aimoo forums are the best on the Web, which is why when MSN disbanded their message board service, Aimoo was the company to take them over.

This problem should be corrected within 24 hours.