Todd,(posted 8356 days ago)Shawn is indeed the publisher (with yours truly helping out deleting the occasional spam thread). He'll answer for himself, but I think he's kind of busy at the moment. I'm travelling (writing this in a hotel in Seattle -- anybody happen to know a good pro lab in Vancouver, BC? Please e-mail) so I'm not posting much either.
Without trying to answer for Jeff, I think Jeff's reference to John is because John has made most of the posts in the last few days: in that sense he is keeping the forum alive. I was really sad the other day when I had to find this forum from the standard LUSENET page and it had fallen off the "active" list :-(
Still, it's quality, not quantity, that counts, so well done everybody and keep it up!