Since you've brought it up, Stormy, the answer is that the cow has to go.
Given that we now have a membership limit (determined by our financial means) I don't think it's fair that this membership spot is being takenby your alt.
I would appreciate it if you would remove this account.
... or should I say remoooooove ... cow humour ...
Thanks for dropping in to tell me, Desireme.
Thank you, Aldo 
btw ... you can keep the bottle of Tylenol ... perhaps it will be useful after all the beer, onion rings & chocolate 
Hello Catherine
I've replied to the Group question below. Your group will remain for the time being (unless you ask for its removal) and will go through an activation process after site migration.
Thanks also for the kind words
Group Clean Up:
It took a while (I had to look at each group individually)but I think that a good portion of the "inactive" groups have been deleted. I removed 70 in total by looking at Group Size (less than 11), Group Age (more than 3 months) &Group Content (little or no content other than the Group Description).
If your groupwas removed in this processbut you still have plans for group activity in the very near future please feel free to create a new group.
Remaining Groups:
Thecurrent plan is to retain the remaining groups unless I hear from their administrators. This means that they will be transferred over to the new site where they will have to go through an activation process. We would have to do this in any case since the Group functionality is so different with 3.0 that it's going to require some additional setup.
Member Clean Up:
I've started deleting Member accounts, starting with those accounts older than one year whose last site visit was the same day as their registration date.
I have a long list (over 300) of Members who haven't visited the site since 2010. I'll do some culling here but it'sa verytime consuming as I have to look at every profile to try to determine if the member may potentially return.
In General:
This is a painstakingprocess and there's no doubt that I'm going to make some mistakes. Ihope that these will be viewedas just that, errors in the process and not some personal attack or insult. I really would appreciate the benefit of the doubt which I believe I've earned in my four years as site moderator.
Change is never easy but it'sdefinitely going to be worth all the effort!
Exactly. I'm a lurker on quite a few sites, I hardly ever post but I make use of the information and even pass it along so though I may look "inactive" I'm not.
The last thing I want to do is offend my fellow lurkers and make them feel like they don't belong.
Thanks for the suggestions, Aldo! I'm currently mulling them over
So far I have reduced the number of groups to 48 by removing those that had limited membership, no recent activity and no content. If I have made a mistake with any of those removals it will be easy to set them up again as no content was there to be lost.
With the groups that do get migrated, I'm thinking of putting them all in "suspension" so that Administrators will have to contact me in order to activate them.
I'm thinking of doing the same thing to members that have been inactive for a long period of time, hold them in suspension and reinstate them by request.
It's an interesting challenge for certain!
I've been working on the new 3.0 site since Wednesday andI'm starting to feel more comfortable making my way around. There's certainly a lot to learn and new features are still being introduced.
Beta testing for 3.0 Groups went live on Thursday night and the new format & functionalityis very exciting!
Speaking of Groups, in my spare time I will start deleting those that are apparently "inactive". It's very hard for me to determine which ones they are so please continue to review your own groups.
I'm going to be removing those groups that are more than 3 months old and only havea fewmembers and limited content. I think it's fairly safe to declare those inactive unless I hear otherwise.
