Communications: The OGR Forum (if today is any guide) has a near 100% turnaround in first-page messages, within 12 hours or so. So- to really keep up, you would need to check at least that often, or have set up this thread as a notification. It is not an efficient (or fair to the others on the Forum) means of communicating.
e-Mail will allow better off-Forum communications using e-mail, or other ways.