<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian J. Murrell</b> <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:</span></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:16 -0400, William Munson wrote:<br>><br>> Why in the world would I want to use a new forum when there is nothing
<br>> wrong with the one we have now? Could it be that you are trying to make<br>> a profit? Maybe harvest our email addresses and spam? At the very least,<br>> its not going to have the experts you find here. I for one will not even
<br>> point my browser to it.<br><br>Yeah. There is another forum I (very reluctantly) read in which the<br>forum "owner" will squash any efforts to try to create alternative<br>methods of discussion.<br><br>
I pondered for a moment why he would do this. What did he care? And<br>then I saw all the flashing advertising crap surrounding the actual<br>forum on his site. Of course he justifies his advertising rates by<br>siloing people into his forum and killing efforts to take discussions
<br>elsewhere.<br><br>Just one more reason I hate forums, as if I needed any more of them.</blockquote>
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<div>Hehe, yeah, I tried this months ago, and found that this is definitely the preferred environment for the people who really contribute, and that works for me!</div>
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<div>I love how the first thing you see when you go to that forum is a Google Ad for SnapStream.<br> </div>