requests now passworded

with the usual 'mellon' (in order to keep requests for uploads, no longer allowed, from appearing on the search engine before a mod or admin can zap them). Requests for legal links (vimeo, youtube, etc) are still allowed.

They're all the same, 'mellon' (as explained in a posting in the main subsections, which unfortunately is a bit obscure in its location).

This is annoying measure to keep the search engines from finding things (which happens in 2-3 days, too fast for us to rely on moderators and admins to remove anything that shouldn't be there).

I've been trying to get a self-enrolling group feature to work, which I did manage to get working on experimerntal site once, but not on this one. There is a bit of a history of sites of this nature disappearing without warning one fine sunny day ... we are trying to avoid that fate, on pain of a certain amount of impaired function and inconvenience. A solution might be for some people to start a new site that would not be so prominent in search, and perhaps managed more craftily from the outset.

We don't get direct control over the files, it's all done by some kind of database, and the admin interface does not include a no robots option. Grrr

It is 'mellon', without the quotes, for all the sections. Same one for everybody.

All the same, 'mellon' without the quotes.