i have had a chance to look at other forums mentioned at the bottom of the rnid forum page. the first and fourth You have to register first before you can explore so that was a no-go. The see.hear is a bbc site and looked very good. The other site was an international site and seemed to attract some strange posters( thats a purely personal opinion.

What did strike me, especially the bbc site, was that there are plenty of people wanting to post, so
if the RNID see fit to let us have a general forum, then we as members must really make /take the time to help each other and post/answer and of more consequence to keep the site "decent"