...what with the plug for Phil's book and penguin computing and Athlon's game machine, I wonder. Was this some kinda sick marketing ploy?

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), December 29, 1999

Answers

Yes.

-- (martinl@restraf.org), December 29, 1999.

No.

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), December 29, 1999.

No. Yesterday a couple of the regulars were discussing how to back up TB2000. They tried and it nearly crashed Phil's machine. If Phil's machine crashes, then nobody can use any of his forums. So we got the boot.

-- Amy Leone (leoneamy@aol.com), December 29, 1999.

Amy Leone...so, then Phil was just being an oppurtunist?

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), December 29, 1999.

Phil had one solution, apparently Diane came up with a better one.

-- Amy Leone (leoneamy@aol.com), December 29, 1999.

Vern,

Are you a troll? It wasn't a marketing ploy. Phil has been providing this service to us at no cost, and does not profit from it, so why should he pay for a new server?

If he was interested in "marketing" he could easily post dozens of advertising banners all over this forum and could have made a fortune by now. By the way, there would be nothing wrong with doing that in a capitalistic society if he wanted to, after all it is his forum and equipment. Take a look at the rest of the Web.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 29, 1999.

Vern

Well if you look at it another way, shutting down TB2000 is a step back as he had all the "adds" for his book on the bottom of the old forum.

That was alot of exposure. Gone.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), December 29, 1999.

...it is the end game ya'know!

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), December 29, 1999.

Vern, chill out and be patient, dude! Prepare for the hard times to come when the Internet will be down (temporarily).

Got books?

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 29, 1999.