David Albert

Email sent. David

There is a spam service called CleanTalk associated with the software that this site runs on, and if you are seeing a blacklisting tag when you send an email, it is because you are sendng an email through a VPN that has been blacklisted due to issues with various users across the internet. These can often originate from Amsterdam, Russia, China, among other places. My suggestion is to use a differently located PC or phone to send the message. This is not something I can help you troubleshoot, as it has to do with the network that you are personally using wherever you are, and is a built-in security feature of the site to attempt to reduce fraud. As far as the guidelines, they are located on every page on this site in the white ribbon towards the top of the screen. The ribbon is located under the "Sturmgewehr" banner in the white colored ribbon that is under the blue colored ribbon. Please click on "Guidelines" to review them Thanks, David

Tim, Be careful of the responses you receive, since you have posted your email and phone number online. Fully vet any request for funds, and DO NOT wire money. Talk to the seller. David

I reset the invoice with today's date, and you are good to renew now. You should receive an email from the site with instructions, or you can also take care of it from your account login here. Just let me know if you need anything else. David

Posting in the market boards requires a rank of Sergeant or above. Ron, I believe you have two accounts. The other one is a rank of Lieutenant, and is "Ron in PA" rather than "RONINPA." David

You can create more storage by deleting old PM's. I have reset your expired invoice with today's date, and you should receive an email from the site, and are clear to renew. Just let me know if you need anything else. Sorry for the delayed response. David

Here's an update on Machinegunboards.com, which is one of our sister sites. We expect that it will be down additional days. If it is not back up by end of day tomorrow, Friday, 10/21/22, it will be down through the weekend. It is currently in a queue to be worked by the advanced team at the forum software company. We attempted to do a similar upgrade the evening of 10/18/22 as we did here on Sturm, but ran into some issues. We fully expect to have the site back up, it's just a question of the downtime duration. For Machinegunboards.com members, we apologize for the downtime, and please bear with us. We will be able to continue talking about Thompsons and other great firearms soon. Sincerely, David Albert dalbert@sturmgewehr.com

Interesting. I had not noticed that. Thanks for noting it. I will add it to our list to see if it can be changed. On the Machinegunboards software update, we have hit some snags, and are having to work with the software company to resolve. I don't have an ETA for return to service yet. David

The total downtime was only 2 hours, so it went well for such a major change behind the scenes. Andy deserves all the credit. Hopefully you like some of the new features. One feature that is really nice is that if you perform a search, the search will return thumbnail photos from posts in the forum that match your search term. There are many updates behind the scenes, but the forum looks almost exactly the same as before. Some of the previous features that did not persist to the new version are as follows: The custom modification to mark things sold - We are going to explore another custom development to determine if it can be re-enabled The total number of members statistic at the bottom of the main page was also a custom mod that did not persist We are currently still working on the upgrade to our sister site, Machinegunboards.com, which has been down since 10pm last night, 10/18/22. Thanks for your patience! David Albert dalbert@sturmgewehr.com

We successfully upgraded the forum software last night. Hopefully you like some of the new features. One feature that is really nice is that if you perform a search, the search will return thumbnail photos from posts in the forum that match your search term. There are many updates behind the scenes, but the forum looks almost exactly the same as before. Some of the previous features that did not persist to the new version are as follows: The custom modification to mark things sold - We are going to explore another custom development to determine if it can be re-enabled The total number of members statistic at the bottom of the main page was also a custom mod that did not persist We are currently still working on the upgrade to our sister site, Machinegunboards.com, which has been down since 10pm last night, 10/18/22. Thanks for your patience! David Albert dalbert@sturmgewehr.com

Upgrade is complete. There may be some fine tuning that is still needed, but the upgrade proved successful. David

Update: We expect the downtime to begin around 10pm tonight, Tuesday, 10/18/22. David