Thank you Peter, glad to know the "new regime" is on top of these concerns.
As a relative newcomer (and a non-UK-based one) to both MogTalk and the MSCC, but having been around Morgans for a long time, I'll throw in my $0.02 to this debate:
My car is a 1985 model, and the nature of the car (it has no electronics to speak of), my own predilections as a tinkerer, and the fact that I'm on the wrong side of the Atlantic, conspire to make my fingernails almost perpetually oily.
I have found an absolute wealth of helpful information, both technical and not-so-technical, on this site and other web resources. The search function on this site is my best friend while Morganing!
Miscellany has some pretty pictures and a few nuggets (another endorsement here for DaveW's articles - keep 'em coming!) of interest amongst the slew of articles that I mostly gloss over. The MSCC doesn't offer me a whole lot else, but having effectively transitioned the "family" membership to me after my dad died last year, I am loath to give it up as he was a strong supporter of MSCC and his local Centre (LogMog).
What seems to be a recurring theme from members (both here and on MogTalk) seems to be bemusement at MSCC's inability to find a way to overcome liability concerns in publishign technical pieces. Every other car club, and all sorts of other organizations where there is a possibility of incompetence leading to injury, manage to insert appropriate waivers that satisfy their lawyers.
Granted, as new Morgans have become more expensive and complex beasties, the nature of ownership has changed too. I suspect there are now more owners than ever before who have a Mog as one of a stable of cars. There are fewer grubby-fingernailed tinkerers (and even those that have an inclination are more likely to be armed with a laptop than a torque wrench). But there are still plenty of enthusiastic amateurs of middling competence who would welcome hints, tips and advice from those with greater expertise and experience.
And a quick thought on MogTalk: I have only just signed up to this, but I don't think I'll be spending much time on it. Email list servers and clunky web interfaces are a bit out of date. Dare I say it, it seems somehow appropriate that the official Morgan board is less user friendly than "aftermarket" alternatives such as TM
