On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:16:54 +0100, David in Normandy wrote:

On 07/11/2013 15:06, Sacha wrote:


Thanks, David but no thanks! While I see the point you're making, my
personal view is that urg should remain advertisement free, with the
exceptions of sig.files rules already in place.

The fundamental problem with advertisement free forums is they don't
have the finance to pay for the site or its bandwidth. This means either
asking members to pay a subscription fee and that is extremely unlikely
to succeed or to use free hosting, which may have limits on the
bandwidth anyway and include adverts by the host, over which the forum
operator would have little or no control.

There is no easy or palatable alternative to the Usenet based URG as far
as I can see and as most of us tend to agree, it is gradually slipping
into oblivion.

I'm late to this thread and haven't read it all yet.

The Maple Society forum is hosted by the University of British Columbia
botanical garden as a service. Perhaps we have some connection to a
garden or institution that would be willing to host a forum?

Personally I have no problem with moderated forums, although someone has
to volunteer to do the moderating.

-E

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Gardening in Lower Normandy