@OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:Guys and Gals,
The original poster that started this thread has been missing in action for quite some time. For the past several months members have been emailing us asking why he isn't posting any longer. Doing some research we found that he also is no longer a subscriber as well as not posting regularly. We decided to try to contact him but after several tries with no response we came to the conclusion that something may have happened. Frankly, with all that is going on health-wise in the world today, I was worried so I did some research and did not come up with any notices. With that in mind we felt that this thread deserved to be authored by an active and well known and liked member. During a discussion with Alex Malliae I brought up this topic and told him that we were considering trying to find someone to author the thread and then it occurred to me that Alex would be perfect for the job! So ... I asked if he would be interested. He responded in the affirmative but expressed that he did not want the OP to be upset with him nor anyone else on the forum for stepping up to the task of overseeing the thread. With that said, I made one more attempt to communicate with the OP but to no avail so we have made Alex the author to this thread. I realize some of you may not agree but we are not going to make everyone happy however we felt that a popular thread such as this deserved an author that was active on the forum and openly involved in the hobby. We realize that there are other (and a lot smaller) threads that may have authors that are no longer with us but this thread is in a different league. I certainly hope that you will agree with us that Alex is up to the task of supporting this thread with some of his posts and will lead the thread into many more years here on the forum. All that we ask of you is to keep on topic and keep off topic discussion between yourselves via profile email. This thread is intended for posts that show and tell what you have recently done on your layout. Thanks for your support!
Alan, i thank you for making me the author of this awesome thread. I will chime in from time to time, I'm always extremely busy , but i make it my business to check in here at least 3 to 4 times per day, sometimes even more.
I'm honored to be a part of this forum !
Thanks, Alex
