I would not be adverse to setting up a "long term survival' section in the forum, IF (a big if):

1. There are sufficient numbers of like minded folks out there who are tired of the flames and tirades in most of those forums elsewhere.

2. If we do this it would follow exactly the same rules as here, which means discussion would be limited to survival issues only, no politics, no personal attacks, etc. See: http://www.equipped.org/rules.htm Chris will admin it with an iron hand, so to speak. Probably would want to set it up so that each person participating has to sign an explicit, legally binding pledge in this regard. (which I'd need to figure out how to do)

3. If interested, please ask like minded folks to check in here and leave a message in this thread. If we get enough response, I'll open up another section.

4. If the new section cannot maintain civility, I would not hesitate to shut it down.

5. Starting up such a section would have to wait until we sort out the current server issues.