Parabellum,
As the originator of that thread, I am very disheartend that the thread content is seriously diminished due to missing photos and spotty detail. You even posted a reminder to the members about updating their broken Photobucket links, yet few did. Whereas that thread once was a resource and gathered a few compliments, it is now not worth much, in my opinion. At the very least, it needs some serious pruning to eliminate the broken links and valueless chit-chat like me asking for more photos, etc. Or maybe it is time to delete the thread in its entirety.

I want to thank you for making it a permanent thread. Without member support, however, it seems to have largely lost its value. You have my complete understanding in whatever you may decide to do.

GaryBF, after the Photobucket hijack I had deleted my originally posted PB pics in your thread, and moved them all over to Post Image. I assumed that they would be safe there, but after seeing this thread I just did a quick check and it appears that while some of my hyper-links still work, a couple don't. I'm not sure exactly why but noticed that the ones that don't work seem to have a lot of advertising on that particular page link. In fact, the types of ads look a lot like the spam virus advertising that used to appear on Photo Bucket.

I apologize for any of my links that are broken. I'll see what I can do to fix the links, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to as I suspect the problem is on the Post Image side.

Like you, I'm disappointed that members haven't maintained their links. I had planned on saving some of the pics for my own records at some point, but took for granted that they would be there when I got around to making the time to save them.

For what its worth, I have enjoyed the thread, and found it both interesting and useful. It would be a shame to lose the thread, but I can certainly understand it if the decision is made to lock or delete it.