[paul cotter (OP)]

Lately I have had difficulty with both login and posting with the usual error message being "session has timed out, please try again later". I am using a thoroughly obsolete laptop with a no longer supported o/s and I wonder is this the cause of my problems?

[alancalverd]

Not your problem alone. I've mentioned this to Chris via the Mods board and it seems that lots of chatbots are trying to scrape this forum if not the entire site. May the Lord have mercy on anyone who picks up any of the wilder assertions in this free-for-all and presents it as an AI-generated thesis.