Just to clarify it for those of you who might not know, I am a registered member who is not at my home computer at the moment.
I gave up reading every post about halfway down. First, I can't imagine why anybody wouldn't want to register in the first place--we all have screen names anyway, and people only know as much about you as you tell them. So what's the problem? Second, in response to a comment above, Max is not trying to make money off this forum, he's trying to get enough financing to keep it going--did you guys think the Internet Fairy was paying the bills?
Do what you have to, Max. A login screen would be fine.