[Bubbi]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

Yes, I will gladly change the name when/if BT1 returns. I don't see that as a given at this point, though.

John

DocJohn--do you know something we dont? Really, OBT has helped many. It has also changed a lot over the years but one thing was for certain--it crashed and went off line on a regular basis.

Forums are made up of people and this one or any other will be what "we" make it for the most part.
JL has not vanished--he can be seen on-line at his other sites. Why he doesnt communicate is anyones guess--he never was very good at keeping us updated when the thing went down.

For myself --the frequent crashes caused me to back off and enter lurkdom as I found it was making me far to irritated for my own good.
BUT--I still felt--"ah BT will be there to help when i really need it" and last week was one of those times.

I went searching and found it still wasnt back but I found this one and was very happy I did cause the people who are most likely to help me for my current crisis are here!

So--I have nothing agasint JL but understand those that are upset. I am not so sure OBT is coming back at all. I disagree that JL doesnt owe the people something.
I think he owes common courtesy and respect by way of a 3 sentence notification regarding whats up or not.

As alwats this is nothing more than my opinion which isnt worth a hill of beans anyway lol

[DocJohn]

I heard back from one of the BT board members last week and JL told him it would be back online last weekend, but that didn't happen. He mentioned that JL had been very busy at Linden, and has been unable to fix the BT software installation. I don't think JL will give up trying, however, and if it can be done, I'm fairly confident he will find a way to do it.

John