I was told to forward this from the original Blackfin site owners

Hi...My name is Deb George (FRSTM8).  My husband, Steve George

(captblackfin), and I started the BlackfinClub.com website back in 2001. I

was so pleased to hear that a new and improved "Blackfin" site has been

created.

We were very proud of what we started and regret deeply that we could not

save all the data that was collected on that site over the years.  The porn

invasion on the site occured due to my forgetting the password that would

have allowed me to screen it out.  It was that simple but it had a huge

impact on so many people.  I did not blame anyone who went on to the next

best thing at the blackfinowners.com site.

The next, and last, thing that doomed our site was that MSN decided to toss

off their discussion groups to MULTIPLY.com.  The problem here was that it

had a 200 member max per group and we had over 750 members.  And the

"migration" from MSN to Multiply was a disaster for many other discussion

forums.

We were then getting hate mail from some members about our "failure" as

managers of the original site.  Some complained that it was not monitored

24/7(we have jobs too) and others just didn't know all the facts about the

porn invasion.  That was the last straw for us because our intentions from

the start were the very best and our goal to bring Blackfin owners together

had been accomplished.

If you could pass this on to your membership it would be greatly appreciated

because we still feel a great deal of responsibility to the faithful Blackfin

owners.

We look forward to this site's success and we will be adding our pix and

expertise soon.

Best regards,

Deb George