Rattlehead said:
With all due respect, I wasn't aware that I had to provide credentials. I thought that a desire to preserve the OUT would be enough. Actually, Puggo, you're one person I would like to talk to in particular.

First, I've never been to Star Tours, would love to go someday, and if I went would be more than thrilled to meet anyone and everyone from this forum or elsewhere, regardless of credentials.

But go back and look at your original post, particularly the title. "SERIOUS preservationists ONLY". Regardless of what you intended, the content made it sound like you were convening a special summit meeting of the world's top experts for a big project. It set a very particular tone. Actually, I was intrigued. Does he have a 70mm print? Is he an LFL insider scuttling a hard drive out of Skywalker Ranch? Is he a 12-year-old kid wanting to get Adywan's autograph? Is this a sting? Should I give this guy my phone number?

It would be as if some random person (say, "John Smith") went on a rock guitar forum, and posted "GRAMMY WINNING guitarists ONLY", and proposed that the biggest superstars meet with him at the Tapas bar. The first things anyone on there is going to say is "why are we meeting?" and "who is John Smith?"

Just about everyone on this forum is serious about preserving the original trilogy. Perhaps if you had just said "hey, I'll be at Star Tours next week and would love to meet up with some of you guys in person... PM me and I'll send you my cell number"... it might have sounded a little less, er, grandiose?