This will be my last week of posting for awhile as I embark on my summer vacation/book tour. I'll pop in from time to time, when I can. But I'll be doing alot of traveling, camping, and staying with friends, so my online time will be sporadic at best.
I will miss you guys and gals (most of you, anyway!) and I hope things haven't changed too much when I get back in September. I expect Hawk will take good care of the Flock and only peck the flesh off the rabble-rousers.
My Appreciation Statement to UMOS:
UMOS is a very special hideaway on the internet for intelligent, respectful metalheads to gather and not be ambushed by snerts and trolls. I've been a member of at least 50 communities since I got the internet back in '96, but UMOS is the only one I stayed at longer than a few months.
I joined in December of last year so I could post on the Orphaned Land boards. There wasn't a whole lot of activity that I could understand (being American) so I started drifting around on Ultimate Metal and found this forum. UMOS appealed to me right at the start. It wasn't too big, and it wasn't too small. It was just right. And the best part, it wasn't "cliquey". Although the core group had already been established, everyone warmly welcomed me from the time of my first post. And I'm not talking about the generic "welcoming committee" of most online communities where a few assigned members give you lip service and promptly ignore you by only talking amongst themselves in private code. Guys like Wyvern, Zeppie, JohnnyD, Hawk, carnut, Bryant, etc. all made me feel like I was just an old friend; an old-school, old friend.
I thank you all, those mentioned above and those not, and I hope you all can take a moment to appreciate just how special this forum is when compared to cliquefests and dogfights you find elsewhere on the Internet.
UMOS RULES!
I will miss you guys and gals (most of you, anyway!) and I hope things haven't changed too much when I get back in September. I expect Hawk will take good care of the Flock and only peck the flesh off the rabble-rousers.
My Appreciation Statement to UMOS:
UMOS is a very special hideaway on the internet for intelligent, respectful metalheads to gather and not be ambushed by snerts and trolls. I've been a member of at least 50 communities since I got the internet back in '96, but UMOS is the only one I stayed at longer than a few months.
I joined in December of last year so I could post on the Orphaned Land boards. There wasn't a whole lot of activity that I could understand (being American) so I started drifting around on Ultimate Metal and found this forum. UMOS appealed to me right at the start. It wasn't too big, and it wasn't too small. It was just right. And the best part, it wasn't "cliquey". Although the core group had already been established, everyone warmly welcomed me from the time of my first post. And I'm not talking about the generic "welcoming committee" of most online communities where a few assigned members give you lip service and promptly ignore you by only talking amongst themselves in private code. Guys like Wyvern, Zeppie, JohnnyD, Hawk, carnut, Bryant, etc. all made me feel like I was just an old friend; an old-school, old friend.
I thank you all, those mentioned above and those not, and I hope you all can take a moment to appreciate just how special this forum is when compared to cliquefests and dogfights you find elsewhere on the Internet.
UMOS RULES!
