Unfortunately we had to shut the forums down because they were being abused by spammers promoting their scams, snake oil medicines, child abuse schemes, pornography, etc.  The postings occurred rapidly from so many different IP addresses, that we couldn't keep up with the maintenance, so we had to terminate our free forums that were centred around supporting anonymous postings (the internet used to be very friendly before the spammers inconvenienced everyone -- please see http://www.lumbercartel.ca/ to learn more about fighting spam).

The good news is that we're developing a new forum system, which utilizes the PostgreSQL database engine (the previous forums relied entirely on text files without a database), that is centred around a secure user registration process.  We will post an update here when it's ready for public consumption.