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Originally Posted by Mercuriel
Sheesh - I PM'ed Bill offering to pay for One Full Year here for all of Us and I've yet to receive a reply...
Maybe if You Guys pester Him about My offer - He'll take Me up on it and have the decency to reply to Me. I know Hes busy but a week later and still no answer. Not even a No TY - Nothing...
Hmmm...
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Hi, Mercuriel:
Many thanks. We very much appreciate the offer. As you probably know, we left for a
UFO Conference last Thursday, and have just returned last night. I personally am a couple of hundred PMs behind and have not yet seen or read your message. We were not ignoring you, and we do thank you for contacting us.
Your offer seems very generous... but we're not sure
exactly what you were proposing.
The costs of running the site itself are nominal: a few hundred dollars a year at the most, with all conceivable extras. The
original subscription idea, described
here when we first launched the site, was for $30 per year with the forum fully accessible but read-only for non-members.
At the time most, people thought that pretty reasonable. We thought that maybe a thousand members might pay that, giving us an income, supplemented by Camelot donations, that would just about enable us to remain viable.
After this I'll post some more about the problems we're trying to solve, and the solutions we're considering. As I explained above, we're not trying to exploit anyone - this is hardly our style! - and our whole ethos is about providing information for the world that no-one can be said to own. But if we don't find a creative way of remaining viable, all our work may be forced to cease.
Very best wishes, Bill