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I have been out of town, more than I have been here lately. I never got around to this, but it will happen.
Snoop, I can understand your stance, and for the most part agree with you. however, everyone here seems to like the speed of ILGPC, and the fact that there isn't spam on the board. This is accomplished by keeping the database clean. Unfortunetly, if I enter a couple of criteria, I can not control the individual pruning of members, it is an all or nothing deal. The way I figure it, if someone doesn't come here for many months, chances are, they won't come back. For the 1 or maybe 2 people who do, it takes nothing more than to re-register, you can even use the same name. For the few users who do come back though, it isn't worth keeping the 200 users taking up space in the database.
Also, I can appreciate those who have donated in the past. But, I can tell you that ILGPC hasn't received a single donation in many many months, and the only thing helping has been company sponsor donations, for which the last company who was doing that, for some reason canceled it. I haven't said anything or removed sponsoring companies, because I don't have much time to dedicate to this board. I have maintained the board, paid for the costs of hosting all without issue, so to keep costs down, in which for the last many months I have paid for myself, it is a necessary process. This is on a dedicated server, on a very fast line, you can imagine that this isn't cheap, yet I have not complained.
I hope this clears things up as to the reasons why I do this. As always I respect and value your opinion. In fact, you don't live so far, we should hook up some time and grab a bite to eat.
John