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Many will know the forum Admin is not in the best of health but this should not inhibit postings so ideas can be debated. This forum is maintained in a professional fashion by the son of the Administrator who does this sort of work for a living. A number of members have volunteered to help and in effect be super Moderators.

So lets have some contributions and requests for advice. We are the first group to experience first hand the long term consequences of Australian Defence superannuation legislation ... and many of us don't like what we have.

Unless we act now, future Defence Force superannuants may well find themselves in an even less desirable situation that we are.

So lets hear from you.

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Anyone who wants to see how this forum could mature should visit the glFusion site and look at their forum. The Forum User Guidelines give a particularly good description of expected behavior on any forum.

For the really keen, there is plenty of documentation on how to set up your own site.

A number of competing programs exist for this aspect of computing. All are different and take a bit of getting used to. Perhaps the best way is to systematicaly go through the menus and see what each offers.

I always use an alias to distance my ideas from myself in the minds of others. This is a personal choice. Senior users in the forums I post to know who I really am because I often send them personal messages. For the really paranoid, it is possible to be quite anonymous by using an odd alias and associated email address together with a subscription or program to obscure your DNS (domain name server) address. I have done this in the past to enable me to visit the USA site of the now defunct small company OQO Inc. For copyright reasons, they operated a separate rather less informative international site, so users outside the USA had to appear to have a USA DNS address to see their main site.

When this site really takes off, users will discover what a useful central source of ideas and references it is and should be better able to formulate how to present a better coordinated case for improvements to the politicians of the day. They are the ones really in charge of what benefits we receive and unless we tell them in a united voice little will change. Only a few of the multitude of ESOs have any serious interest in Defence Force superannuation and their voluntary and often aged voices often remain unheard among the barrage of representations politicians now receive.

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