Sorry, but when you're responsible and the technical caretaker for a community of 50,000+ members -- real, live human beings -- you treat them with the same respect as any community, whether you're being paid or not. Being "out of town" or "having a life" (what, community members don't have a life?) is not an excuse for anything, and I think we all recognize that.

There's some things here that just don't seem right to people, and what you've seen is people reacting to that (a month to get around to actually fixing the problem? a month before you update a status message when the message said it would be updated regularly? nearly 2 weeks to get a set of disks that could easily be purchased and mailed overnight, or by purchasing from one of the 6 Apple stores in the greater Boston area?). It has nothing to do with the appreciation everybody has also expressed to JL for running BT for all of these years. But it wasn't like JL *is* BT. BT has a board, right, and is its own non-profit? I would think one of the purposes of incorporating and having others involved is precisely to prevent these kinds of things happening.

Sorry, if you take on the responsibility all yourself, you have to be *responsible.* That's why I hope the new BT shows its members the respect they deserve when it comes back, and gives technical oversight of the operation to more people than just JL. As I've said many times, from what I know of JL, he's a great guy. But it seems obvious that this operation has grown much larger than one person, no matter how great and caring he is.

John