Apart from Pconfigs intro being a bit rude (hey, how often did Graham
want to kill me ):

I strongly advise against a MOT forum. It will separate us from the WCG
forum (community) which will not only reduce the number of posts in the
WCG forums (less new members will see our posts and join us), it will
also introduce some kind of elite status -- much stronger than the current
"headquarter". Maybe we will still feel connected to the WCG but members
of other teams will feel much more of the "we" and "they" when we even
post at another forum and no longer (or less) post in the community. We
already crunch on another level, we are much better supported and we are
generally better accepted from females (as proved long ago). Don't make
that extra step away from the WCG community or that community will
make the same step away from us.

There's nothing we should have to discuss behind curtains (and those
curtains have holes anyway). If a "private" forum is needed to be used for
flamewars, dirty laundry and bashing of other teams then that's no use
for MOT anyway as we don't do such stuff. If you need that then certainly
there's a team not far away that better suits those needs. If MOT needs
a private forum for team-only discussion then I fear it's not the team I
initially entered.

My clear vote AGAINST a MOT discussion forum outside the WCG forums.

Best, Stefan.

I'll shut my mouth for now

Hi, Pconfig. I think I understand your frustration. You should not and must not take the team mates comments on a personal level. They are right in the sense that another forum would not be necessarily constructive for the team. It would dilute the communication stream and yes we would look like a team apart from the others. We are already apart for all the good reasons.

However, I do understand, I think, your motivation for creating a forum. It often came across my mind to do such a thing.
But on what subject?
Who would come there?
Further more you probably remember I would be a poor moderator.
But the technical experience by itself could be worth it for you. I do not know how old you are or what your interest spectrum is. But there is a lot to be learn in building such a thing.

I encourage you to pursue that goal. But don’t be disappointed if you don’t get much traffic there. But you will acquire experience that could be useful for other projects later in life.

So my friend go for it, learn has much has you can.
Knowledge is never waisted.

Your team mate Rej.

PS: Why not a collabaration on Dave's web site?

Can't stop must dash (again)
Busy busy busy again at work today Sorry

When I get home I will make time promise (before I break open that bottle of Leffé )

I think we've had 2 new members today have you missed them Graham?

4 in the last 2 days and I see Dave we've reached that 21st spot

Chat later

TTFN
Dave

That spagetti no problem Graham It just needs a good sauce. You don't get anymore points for a drive over 10Gig btw

Welcome onboard dkrawczynski, Faizan and Furraymurray thanks for choosing to join our crazy crunching crew. Your member pages are now online and the white box you see there will be replaced at 00:45UTC today by the start of your MOT points graph. If you don't mind please could you drop me an email with the details you would like to see on your pages my email address can be found on the team's website. If you wish to remain anonymous that OK by me too.

Once again thanks for choosing MyOnlineTeam it will be great to see our new starters working their way up through the ranks.

Maranave has signed in I see you are living in God's own country I'm originally from Farsley nr Pudsey but it's grim up t'north. I've turned into a southern softy (Even Geoff Boycott now lives in Bournemouth ).

Pconfig I'd like to say thanks you have enthused me to improve our wonderful website - there's always an excuse not to do it, I'm tired usually works for me. But a brief shout out to Mr Wright - Now is the time to launch "Project MyOnline" We've both been sitting on some really nice domain names and over the coming weeks they will be unveiled to the world. There should be a fair few new tabs to click on. I'll leave it at that I'm coming over all cryptic like Knreed

Pconfig would you like a backup copy of the MS SQL database that Aldeb's Java app has created everything you ever wished to know about the performance of anything MOT is in there since about February (definitely July anyway) Then you can generate loadsa stats. I don't wish to put you off we just need some kind of order in our plans. I know you are enthusiastic and I probably let you down earlier in the project by not providing you a PHP resource to work with. You can now work in Coldfusion, PHP, ASP or ASP.NET. If you need any web space to have a play please let me know and I'll set it up for you. I don't like falling out with any of the MOT Crew