One thing that struck me about this forum when I first explored it recently was the amount of posts that didn't get a response. This discourages people from posting again.

On a VB Programming forum that I regularly use Every single post no matter how simple, difficult, unreadable or confusing gets a reply from the regular contributors. As a result, the forum is extremely successful.

So my suggestion is when somebody makes a post, particularly a new member, it's important that he or she gets a suitable response.

It sounds like I'm preaching but it really is that simple!

BF