Hi Grey1
It seems to me there are (at least) two key issues relating to a new Private Forum for the Program Trade threads. Firstly, perhaps it is a great idea to have a focussed and dedicated forum (strictly moderated) which will focus on the project at hand and be seperated from other potentially distracting matters. The second issue, I suppose, is who is granted access to this forum, under what conditions, and then, of course, who is going to make these decisions? This would seem to be the much more dificult area.
You, yourself, have shared vast knowledge and experience here and I reckon you have been happy do so with hardly any restrictions and certainly with no material reward. Maybe all the individual aspects of a trading strategy/system should remain on the main TT and then if two or more people feel that they want to get together and put in the effort/resource to produce automated code for themselves then of course they are free to do so.
Just "thinking outload".
Cheers
Steve