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TheDon
Jul 30th, 09, 08:25 AM
As a team of automotive and powersports enthusiasts at AutoForums.com, we are pleased to announce that we have joined forces with Al and Dot McKenzie and their suite of classic Chevrolet enthusiast forums. The web sites include Chevelles.com, Novas.net, Camaros.net, Impalas.net, El Caminos.net and ChevyTeam.com.

Relieving site owners of the burden of administrative tasks and hosting issues, AutoForums.com brings experience from running more than one hundred enthusiast sites on the Internet. Our role here is to support the forum Moderators technically and help put in place features that would grow the community.

As an example and part of the transition, the classic Chevy sites are now hosted on Intel Core I7, Xeon 5500 series, Quad Core CPU servers, with 4 Gb RAM.

We also understand that each community is different and work to accommodate those differences.Successful sites quickly grow to the point where the founder will struggle to keep up with administrative and technical maintenance issues, leaving little or no time to participate in and enjoy the topical discussions that are fundamental to the site. It is those fundamentals that we have learned to preserve in our process of transition.

As Al has said in his announcement, he will still be around and possibly even more than he has been able to recently. The moderating team has committed to remain and continue building the various communities and we at Autoforums.com look forward to assisting in that objective. The existing leadership of these forums remains intact.

My name is Don Roy and I am your contact for any issues related to the transition and future of these sites. I am old enough to remember seeing most of these cars when they were new and I have worked on a couple of them over the years. I look forward to your questions and your input. I am particularly interested in any outstanding issues or new features that you feel would help grow the community. You can reach me anytime by emailing af-admin@novas.net

The majesty and history of these cars, as well as the knowledge of them contained in these forums, needs to be preserved and enhanced. That was Al’s mission and now it is ours. Please join us in making it happen.


Don

SHIFTY4
Jul 30th, 09, 09:34 AM
Welcome Don,

I look forward to working with you here at Team Nova as well as at the rest of the AutoForum sites.

Good to have you with us, I wish you the best ;)



JR

SPARKY69
Jul 30th, 09, 09:41 AM
welcome don..great to have you aboard!!!!!!!!!!

David_H
Jul 30th, 09, 09:54 AM
Welcome to team nova:thumbsup: - AutoForums:confused:;)

So whats your plans for the sites?

TheDon
Jul 30th, 09, 10:34 AM
Thanks for the welcome, guys!

As far as plans go, the first few things revolve around consultation with the Mods to try and identify opportunities to reduce their workload. Sometimes site features develop without an eye to ease of maintenance. We want to make sure that this place stays fun for them as well.

Thanks... Don

SPARKY69
Jul 30th, 09, 12:17 PM
awesome, we are ready for change!!(obama quote)

136679ss
Jul 30th, 09, 12:21 PM
Welcome to the forums Don. JN

poorman72
Jul 31st, 09, 07:03 AM
I would like to say welcome to the team also Don. Al and Dot have done a wonderful job of building these sites. Our moderators are the best. I'm glad you are keeping our leadership intact. I learn something new from them every day. Thanks guys.:thumbsup:

TheDon
Jul 31st, 09, 02:17 PM
I learn something new from them every day.

... as do I, Randy. :thumbsup:

Don

SHIFTY4
Jul 31st, 09, 03:31 PM
Thanks for the welcome, guys!

As far as plans go, the first few things revolve around consultation with the Mods to try and identify opportunities to reduce their workload. Sometimes site features develop without an eye to ease of maintenance. We want to make sure that this place stays fun for them as well.

Thanks... Don


OK !!!! a 24 year old Sweetie (clothing optional) to bring me cool drinks when needed would CERTAINLY ease my workload !!!


Johnny (oh now THIS is gonna be NICE) :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

TheDon
Jul 31st, 09, 03:55 PM
OK !!!! a 24 year old Sweetie (clothing optional) to bring me cool drinks when needed would CERTAINLY ease my workload !!!


Johnny (oh now THIS is gonna be NICE) :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
High maintenance, dude. WAY too high... l:)

SHIFTY4
Jul 31st, 09, 04:01 PM
Oh well... back to the drawing board. :yes:

SPARKY69
Jul 31st, 09, 04:17 PM
Oh well... back to the drawing board. :yes:nice try,:D a gold star for the effort!:hurray:

David_H
Aug 1st, 09, 02:23 AM
OK !!!! a 24 year old Sweetie (clothing optional) to bring me cool drinks when needed would CERTAINLY ease my workload !!!


Johnny (oh now THIS is gonna be NICE) :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Please don't Don:noway:
I kinda like shifty and if you gave him that he would have a massive heart attack the poor old goat.;)

NIGHTSHADE
Aug 3rd, 09, 06:23 PM
Hi Don, remember me??:thumbsup:

Mr. Skeptical antagonist here!!!!!!