To give you some idea of the volumes posted on the forum (que cries of 'quality not quantity' [8>] ...)
Number of posts started per month.
2002 May 20,369 * In progress
2002 Apr 28,248
2002 Mar 30,802
2002 Feb 26,260
2002 Jan 29,394
2001 Dec 24,598
2001 Nov 23,896
2001 Oct 25,024
2001 Sep 20,675
2001 Aug 22,283
2001 Jul 18,942
2001 Jun 17,807
2001 May 13,352
Number of new topics started per month
2002 May 1,475 * In progress
2002 Apr 1,992
2002 Mar 2,165
2002 Feb 1,913
2002 Jan 2,179
2001 Dec 1,834
2001 Nov 1,751
2001 Oct 2,007
2001 Sep 1,813
2001 Aug 1,637
2001 Jul 1,523
2001 Jun 1,396
2001 May 1,211
This is what is posted. From a traffic point of view, there is usually 40,000+ sessions each week (roughly equates to 'visitors') so things do get read and I expect this will increase following dateline.
What does this mean?
Well, unfortunately, if too many people post too many threads then it gets difficult to follow (more posts within threads are not as bad).
Because of this it may be necessary to limit the number of new topics that can be started to try and stop the same topics being repeated too often. You can help by looking first to see if a topic has been recently started by someone else before creating a new one and keeping a discussion to one topic.
One way this can be avoided is to use the subject areas better. please try and post into the appropriate place and this will help to organise things better. Some new areas have been requested and I should be adding these in the next day or two.
Don't take this as a complaint though - it's nice to be busy!