Well - a big hello to you all,
I remember this time last year, and its few preceeding weeks very well indeed! I had scribbled down what I thought was an intresting and attention attracting note, and was frantically entering this message in all your website guestbooks, your visitor pages and the internet newsgroups - desperately trying to seek out visitors to my new www site. There was absolutely no way then that I would have thought that what we have today would have been possible. Alas I was wrong.
We... no... you... have built what I consider to be a totally unique and amazing online community. Maybe many of us knew each other before tMP, but I am equally certain that many of us didn't. Introductions have been made, friendships have been formed, and I even remember reading about a tMP romance blossoming somewhere! I have met some fantastic people during our 1st year - both virtually online and actually in person. It seems word of tMP has travelled far and wide. We have famous tMP'ers and some not so famous tMP'ers, budding writers and authours, hillarious posts, rude posts, friends from across the oceans... NZ, USA, Canada, Australila, all over Europe, and who can forget Singapore Northern Lass eh. We have mickey takers, composers, great players, publishers, those who are serious... and those who are not. We have Dentists, Teachers, IT Guru's and Teckies, and a load of other trades & professions. What I'm saying rather badly here, is that we have people on tMP from everywhere, and it's fab that this is so.
For my sins, I guess I can be both accused of... and found guilty of many things: keeping many of you up late at night burning the midnight-oil, getting some folks told off in work, playing GOD by banning our wonderful Uncle N.... but I do know one thing, and that is that I am truley grateful to all of you for your help, support and encouragement in making tMP become... within its first year... simply the best brass discussion forum on the web. I have received so many mesasges of encouragement and support for tMP in letters, e-mails and PM's - thanks to everyone for your kind words.
You have a wonderful team of Moderators who have helped in this process and who simply do a fantastic job... and to whom I owe so much. I just couldn't do it on my own. You all know my policy on keeping tMP a family friendly site - well it is these folks who ensure it is kept this way with a lot of time and effort on their part. This time is given freely, and they undertake what on times, is a very difficult job. I would like to publicly thank Roger, Rachel, Ian, Neal, Peter and Dyl for the dedication and loyalty shown to tMP. Thanks folks... They have each made a tremendous contribution to tMP, making sure our rules and guidelines are adhered to. Maybe now is a suitable time to remind ourselves of tMP forum rules - they are regularly updated to reflect our online experiences.
I'm hoping that this is not too early, but as well as saying thank you to you all, I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone here a wonderful time during the upcoming festive season and to wish you all a great christmas doing whatever it is that you enjoy doing.
Here's to you all for what we achieved during our 1st year, and for what we'll achieve in our 2nd... cheers... :guiness
John :tup
Now get into the Christmas spirit and get some santa hats on those avatars...
I remember this time last year, and its few preceeding weeks very well indeed! I had scribbled down what I thought was an intresting and attention attracting note, and was frantically entering this message in all your website guestbooks, your visitor pages and the internet newsgroups - desperately trying to seek out visitors to my new www site. There was absolutely no way then that I would have thought that what we have today would have been possible. Alas I was wrong.
We... no... you... have built what I consider to be a totally unique and amazing online community. Maybe many of us knew each other before tMP, but I am equally certain that many of us didn't. Introductions have been made, friendships have been formed, and I even remember reading about a tMP romance blossoming somewhere! I have met some fantastic people during our 1st year - both virtually online and actually in person. It seems word of tMP has travelled far and wide. We have famous tMP'ers and some not so famous tMP'ers, budding writers and authours, hillarious posts, rude posts, friends from across the oceans... NZ, USA, Canada, Australila, all over Europe, and who can forget Singapore Northern Lass eh. We have mickey takers, composers, great players, publishers, those who are serious... and those who are not. We have Dentists, Teachers, IT Guru's and Teckies, and a load of other trades & professions. What I'm saying rather badly here, is that we have people on tMP from everywhere, and it's fab that this is so.
For my sins, I guess I can be both accused of... and found guilty of many things: keeping many of you up late at night burning the midnight-oil, getting some folks told off in work, playing GOD by banning our wonderful Uncle N.... but I do know one thing, and that is that I am truley grateful to all of you for your help, support and encouragement in making tMP become... within its first year... simply the best brass discussion forum on the web. I have received so many mesasges of encouragement and support for tMP in letters, e-mails and PM's - thanks to everyone for your kind words.
You have a wonderful team of Moderators who have helped in this process and who simply do a fantastic job... and to whom I owe so much. I just couldn't do it on my own. You all know my policy on keeping tMP a family friendly site - well it is these folks who ensure it is kept this way with a lot of time and effort on their part. This time is given freely, and they undertake what on times, is a very difficult job. I would like to publicly thank Roger, Rachel, Ian, Neal, Peter and Dyl for the dedication and loyalty shown to tMP. Thanks folks... They have each made a tremendous contribution to tMP, making sure our rules and guidelines are adhered to. Maybe now is a suitable time to remind ourselves of tMP forum rules - they are regularly updated to reflect our online experiences.
I'm hoping that this is not too early, but as well as saying thank you to you all, I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone here a wonderful time during the upcoming festive season and to wish you all a great christmas doing whatever it is that you enjoy doing.
Here's to you all for what we achieved during our 1st year, and for what we'll achieve in our 2nd... cheers... :guiness
John :tup
Now get into the Christmas spirit and get some santa hats on those avatars...