Sure you can ask no problem!  We closed the gorup because it just became pretty inactive.  Everyone just got so bucy with real life.  Plus I co-own another VERY active group (this week we have had over 5300 posts already) that takes up most of my computer time now.  So we just decided to give each other our e-mail addresses and communicate that way.  But yes, MSN has been quite a pain in the patoot lately!