What if you got up some morning and Mercedesshop wasn't there and wasn't coming back. We need a backup plan. Like when you have a fire at home,,, everyone is supposed to meet down by the mailbox. I feel I "know" a lot of folks here after hanging around for 5 years, and would certainly miss all the imput and diversity that greets me every morning. It's probably a stupid thought, but, and this is certainly no jab at you Bill, what if ?

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95 SL500 Smoke Silver, Parchment 64K
07 E350 4matic Station Wagon White 34K
02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

It's happened before. Twice.

Oh wait, you mean ALL of the website and not just O.D.? That would be a tragic loss. There is such a huge accumulation of talent and knowledge on this website that it would be difficult and time-consuming to reconstruct it elsewhere.

B

Remember the Black Out of 1-22-07 at 10:00a.m. Eastern Time? Panic and fear struck my chest as I went to access the Forum and got these words in giant letters :FORBIDDEN ACCESS. I think we should have an e-mail tree, like a phone tree then we can set up an Im. I would be very sad if I didn't have the Forum in my life, its like a fraternity to eternity.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Howdy All,
I would just go to the Mercedes forum. Someone would show up.

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Frank X. Morris
17 Kia Niro
08 Jeep Wrangler 4 door unlimited

I would go outside.

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

Oh great, just what I need....something else to be paranoid about.


ok...whether I'm paranoid or not...a backup plan, someplace to reconvene is probably a good idea.


Having mercedesshop.com dissappear would be bad karma for those responsible. really bad karma I mean, really really bad karma....the kind that is worse than finding camel lice in your underwear.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Perish the thought. My entire life's work has been posted on this website.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

I used to post pretty regularly on Braintalk which is a board devoted mostly to neurological problems. It went down this past year for a long time--months. A lot of people were pretty upset because it was as important to them as the 'shop is to us. Finally, someone set up an alternative website but it was hard to find. The original came back into existence recently. There was a wealth of medical information and personal experience lost for a long time.
On the diesel discussion alone there is such a breadth of knowledge that it would be impossible to duplicate in any one person's mind. It contains the mechanical knowledge of hundreds of diesel heads all accessible in a moment. If the board went down there'd be a lot of old diesels coming to a grinding halt.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I can forsee that in the future of the internet someone will devise just such a backup plan, but that's WAY out of my expertise to come up with anything more than the problem.

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95 SL500 Smoke Silver, Parchment 64K
07 E350 4matic Station Wagon White 34K
02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

Ok, Everyone on the whole site, not just this forum, send me an email with a translation to your site screen name. I'll we'll be able to correspond if we do that. The address is [email protected], or [email protected]ks

This site is backed up weekly or possibly even daily. It's not going anywhere people, even if it does go down for a bit it will always come back.

Are you actually serious trucnkinik?

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

God! If anything ever happened to this site, I don't know WHAT I'd do. I'd, . . I'd, . . .well, I'd probably start doing my job again . . . or sumthin'.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Camel lice in underwear now that's an oxymoron.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

This site isn't going anywhere, but we should have a plan!

Lets see we can all meet in Benzworld, or at MBworld.org hows that sound? I know most of the heavy posters here are on MBworld.org's off topic forum, along with just about everyone who has been banned for various reasons.

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2006 CL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2026 Genesis GV70
2007 Tiara 3200

I would just live my life like I do every day. Plus like hatt posted most of us are member on other forums..