"Dan L." expounded:

Loss of privacy - meaning: Are you going to sell the users mail and
email address to junk mailers so you can profit at the expense of others
miss fortunes of getting lots of junk mail.

First of all, Dan, I don't own the forum. I've been on three of Rob's
forums for over a year now and nary a bit of spam has sullied my
inbox. All I wanted to do was to offer some of my friends here on
wreck.gardens a nice little alternative. Of course people who don't
know me (I've posted here since 1994) may think I have ulterior
motives, but those who do know me know I'm a true gardener, that's
what I do, that is what makes me happy. Usenet is fine, but I've come
to enjoy actually meeting people in real life and those connections
were made via these forums. I've met a few from here, too, but the
trolls and bullshit just got to be too much for me. So as of August,
when my Newsguy account comes up for renewal, I'm off. I'll spend the
$69 a year on a Carbonite backup account. I just don't come here
enough to warrant it. If I want to I'll use the lousy Comcast account
after that.

As for roosters, I dearly want one, but my neighbors will have a fit,
our houses are just too close together for it. So I'll have happy
hens and eggs, and manure for my gardens, and all will be right with
the world. For the moment.

There's plenty of free speech on the forums, you just can't drag every
single thread down into a political rant that serve no purpose other
than to dig at anyone who thinks a bit differently than you do. I
have no problem with that, because I'm a gardener on a gardening
subject. I save my politics for more appropriate forums.
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Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
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