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Lightnin' Rod

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DiscApp lease ...
« on: February 18, 2005, 02:04:51 PM »
So I got the email today:

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Hello,

The lease on DiscApp 183447 will expire on March 12, 2005.

To continue your lease, please remit $15 US for one quarter or $50 US
for one year by March 12, 2005.


Think they've noticed we've stopped posting?
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Re: DiscApp lease ...
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2005, 02:20:51 PM »
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Think they've noticed we've stopped posting?


bots don't think. look at condi.
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Re: DiscApp lease ...
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2005, 02:24:31 PM »
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Think they've noticed we've stopped posting?


bots don't think. look at condi.


Yeah, well last year they said it was $200 bucks based on our usage.  So I think they take a look at the stats before coming up with a number.  And our stats have been zeros for about a month now.
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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2005, 02:32:27 PM »
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Think they've noticed we've stopped posting?


bots don't think. look at condi.


Yeah, well last year they said it was $200 bucks based on our usage.  So I think they take a look at the stats before coming up with a number.  And our stats have been zeros for about a month now.


if only we'd known!  Stop using it for 6 weeks before renewal time!
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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2005, 03:17:52 PM »
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if only we'd known!  Stop using it for 6 weeks before renewal time!


not a bad little trick!
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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2005, 04:36:34 PM »
Mu-uu-uhh-ahh-ahhhh (evil laugh)  :twisted:
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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2005, 04:42:49 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2005, 04:45:54 PM »
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Re: DiscApp lease ...
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2005, 04:57:33 PM »
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So I got the email today:

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Hello,

The lease on DiscApp 183447 will expire on March 12, 2005.

To continue your lease, please remit $15 US for one quarter or $50 US
for one year by March 12, 2005.


Think they've noticed we've stopped posting?
I wonder why they decided to become more competitive all of a sudden.  I think at this point the money is not an issue, so you guys decide where you want to live.  I kind of dig phpBB (needs more remodeling, but I'll wait to see if we stay or not!) but I'm using it less now that I'm in school, so mainly it's up to you American-productivity-sucking folk who sneak on during the work day!
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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2005, 10:55:33 AM »
I have gotten used to the new app here and like the separation of topics.  What's the cost for this?
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« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2005, 10:57:48 AM »
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you American-productivity-sucking folk


If we didn't do this, we'd be brainless work-bots.
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how much does this cost?
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2005, 04:09:46 PM »
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I have gotten used to the new app here and like the separation of topics.  What's the cost for this?
For the moment, it costs nothing.  We are essentially hiding under the skirts of one of my other sites.  If we want to get our own place, and divvy out email addresses like Alicat@10at10Club.com, it looks to be about $50/year.  If for some reason we started sucking up huge amounts of bandwidth and storage space, we'd have to look deeper.  At the moment, it doesn't look too bad.

Some stats:

Number of posts:     2741     Posts per day:     86.21
Number of topics:    226    Topics per day:    7.11
Number of users:    12    Users per day:    0.38
Board started:    18 Jan 2005 09:04 pm    Avatar directory size:    70.03 KB
Database size:    2.61 MB

It's your call clubmembers.  Since discserver seems to have come to their senses, if you guys think it's worthwhile, you could pay them $50 just to sit there and do nothing, and have the old site as an archive location.  If we could get Rod to import the SQL file somewhere, somehow, we could store it elsewhere too.
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« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2005, 05:23:24 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2005, 10:32:19 PM »
here's a link to some web hosting built around message boards.  It's a bit more expensive than what I'm used to, but there are several of you with more experience than I in this matter, that might have an opinion about this kind of option:

http://www.sitecrossing.com/.26bfed59
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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2005, 01:40:06 PM »
REVIVE!

Bringing this to the top of the queue b/c Saturday is the deadline to renew the old board.  I'm OK with sticking with this board going forward, but I think a few people wanted to try and archive the disc.server's content.  Indeed, a lot of good material there for the archivists among us.  Anyone into the task?
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