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#2026 2026-09-07 06:02:46

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Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241410 Current active post is  241428 - --> 18  new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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#2027 2026-09-08 06:20:26

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn sent another sample of member posts with space related themes.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241428 Current active post is  241444 - --> 16  new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-08 06:21:17)


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#2028 2026-09-09 06:16:18

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241444 Current active post is  241454 - --> 10  new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-09 06:18:59)


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#2029 2026-09-10 06:24:35

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had 3 new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn was back with another sample of space related member posts.
Cloudflare was back with more information about their upcoming conference
Azure sent their monthly invoice for Lifeboat services.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241454 Current active post is  241462 - --> 8  new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-10 06:25:09)


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#2030 2026-09-11 07:02:56

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241462 Current active post is  241481 - --> 19  new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-11 07:03:45)


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#2031 2026-09-12 06:13:26

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Member
Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn was back with a sample of member posts.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241448 Current active post is  241491 - --> 43  new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-12 06:14:24)


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#2032 2026-09-13 06:35:28

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Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241491 Current active post is  241514 - --> 23  new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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#2033 2026-09-14 15:27:57

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Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241514 Current active post is  241544 - --> 30  new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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#2034 2026-09-15 06:06:27

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Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn was back with another member sample.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241544 Current active post is  241552 - --> 8 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-15 06:07:21)


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#2035 2026-09-16 11:19:32

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Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

Cloudflare sent out an update on their treatment of AI web Crawlers. They specifically added a feature to prohibit training of agents.

In the case of the NewMars lifeboat, no changes were made.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241552 Current active post is  241571 - --> 19 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-16 11:20:45)


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#2036 2026-09-17 07:09:44

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn sent another sample of member posts.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241571 Current active post is  241586 - --> 15 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-17 07:10:23)


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#2037 2026-09-18 06:23:44

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241586 Current active post is  241603 - --> 17 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-18 06:24:19)


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#2038 2026-09-19 06:57:44

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had TWO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn sent another sample of member posts with a space theme. ChatGPT is back announcing new features.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241603 Current active post is  241626 - --> 23 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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#2039 2026-09-20 06:39:24

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Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241626 Current active post is  241643 - --> 17 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-20 06:47:27)


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#2040 2026-09-21 07:03:13

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Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241643 Current active post is  241662 - --> 19 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-21 07:05:01)


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#2041 2026-09-22 06:36:25

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn sent another email with member samples with a space theme.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241662 Current active post is  241680 - --> 18 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-22 06:40:26)


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#2042 2026-09-23 06:31:59

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

Cloudflare sent another reminder of their upcoming conference.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241680 Current active post is  241695 - --> 15 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-23 06:34:08)


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#2043 2026-09-24 06:12:20

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn sent another sample of member posts with a space theme.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241695 Current active post is  241709 - --> 14 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-24 06:13:12)


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#2044 2026-09-25 06:29:18

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Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241709 Current active post is  241729 - --> 20 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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#2045 2026-09-26 06:38:40

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Member
Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

LinkedIn sent an email with samples of member posts.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241729 Current active post is  241743 - --> 14 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

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#2046 2026-09-28 10:02:38

NewMarsMember
Member
Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had ONE new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

ChatGPT sent a note about new image processing capabilities. 

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241743 Current active post is  241775 - --> 32 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

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#2047 2026-09-29 14:19:15

NewMarsMember
Member
Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had TWO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

Cloudflare sent an announcement about it's 16th Anniversary. Cloudflare provides security for the NewMars lifeboat.
LinkedIn sent a sample of posts that have a space theme.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241775 Current active post is  241797 - --> 22 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-29 14:19:48)


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#2048 2026-09-30 06:30:53

NewMarsMember
Member
Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241797 Current active post is  241805 - --> 8 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

(th)

Last edited by NewMarsMember (2026-09-30 06:31:43)


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#2049 2026-10-01 06:24:53

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Posts: 26,273

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We are in Year 39 at Mars.  NewMars has completed tracking of three full Martian years.

We had TWO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

Airloom Energy sent us their monthly report.
LinkedIn sent another sample of member posts with a space theme.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

***

We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 59#p179759

A quality assurance run is scheduled every 1000 posts, to find any posts not accessible upon lookup.
Current stopping point is 241000 The next scan will be run at 242000.

Previous ID was 241805 Current active post is  241836 - --> 31 new posts since previous report

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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#2050 2026-10-02 06:24:24

NewMarsMember
Member
Registered: 2019-02-17
Posts: 2,131

Re: Recruiting expertise for NewMars Forum topics:

NewMarsMember@gmail.com portal is open for business.

We are in Year 39 at Mars.  NewMars has completed tracking of three full Martian years.

We had NO new message(s) this morning. NO email(s) were sent.

To apply for membership, please write newmarsmember@gmail.com

For existing registered members who have lost your password ... If you remember the email address you used to register, you can request a recovery email at that address.  If you no longer have the email available (as could happen over 20+ years) just write to NewMarsMember@gmail.com  email address. Your request will be forwarded to SpaceNut, who has the tools available to assist as needed.

The images server at http://new-mars.org/phpBB3 is working.
NewMars members enrolled include:
Site Administrator (shared by kbd512 and tahanson43206)
GW Johnson
kbd512
tahanson43206
SpaceNut
Calliban

All members of NewMars are welcome to open an account in the Newmars image server.

Update: If a member of ** this ** forum applies for an account on the Image Server, please let us (Admins) know, so we can look for your User ID in the waiting room.

The Azure VM is responding once again. I suspect it had gone to sleep due to dis-use. Microsoft said it would pull the plug on or about November 14th of 2025, but it has not yet done so. The non-response was due to the router IP address not being in the white list at the Azure site.  There are several routers here and they compete with each other for connection.

The images server at http://NewMars.com/phpBB3 is offline. The new server supports direct display of images.

The main NewMars forum has been updated from 2012 to 2024 standards. It was activated live on Sunday 2024/12/01.
The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia.
To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Recordings of the 25th Anniversary Mars Society Conference are now available on YouTube.

We are happy to welcome former members back into the active community.  It has been brought to my attention that a number of former members are marked as "banned".  In many cases, this marking is a limitation of FluxBB, which is the forum software.

Because of the onslaught of thousands upon thousands of spammers over 20+ years, the decision was made to close off access to inactive accounts.  Unfortunately, the only mechanism available is the "banning" tool.  If you are an older member and you find your account has been banned, it may have been locked to prevent hacker access.  You can ask SpaceNut to reactivate the account. See the procedure below.  Those who were banned for inappropriate behavior may also apply.  SpaceNut will then have the opportunity to evaluate your application.

SpaceNut is in the process of upgrading members from "banned" to inActive. Since there are over 1000 folks caught up in this situation due to the spammers, it is going to take SpaceNut a while to complete the upgrade.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

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We have 18,370 freshly refurbished User Id's ready for new members.

Read Post #2 of this topic for procedures to apply for membership.  Mention specific assistance you wish to provide.

For all ... we really ** are ** looking for members who want to make a difference by helping others with projects, or providing leadership on new projects.  We have a ready supply of folks who can and will make comments and offer suggestions.  We don't need more folks in that specialty.  We ** do ** need folks who can and ** will ** help project leaders already trying to achieve something in the real universe, or who have a vision of life on Mars they'd like to pursue.

In 2026, as we look back over 20+ years of forum activity, we have an opportunity to think about the value the forum provided for it's members.  The very first post shows an example. The first post in this forum is dated 2001-09-04.  Author was John Creighton from Nova Scotia. To see it enter: http://NewMars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1#p1

Mr. Creighton's opening post offered to share knowledge he possessed with others.

This topic was launched by SpaceNut 2020-03-01 12:52:20>> 1789 days to Post #1520 on 2025/01/23
Daily reports started 2020/01/03 at post #51 Days elapsed since Post #51 > #1520 >> 1469 posts (not all were daily updates)
The "open for business message" first appeared 2021-05-11 in Post #172 1351 days ago >> 1349 posts
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Looking forward to hearing from you!

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