[TheForge]Help a sinking ship?

[Schade]

It doesn't seem like such a big deal to me if Abana was to make mention 
in the next AR or HB that anvilfire.com could use some help. It 
wouldn't be that much different than the AR including news of a members 
shop fire so that members who were so inclined could send a $20 or 
whatever amount they could to help out.

I know that anvilfire is a commercial enterprise but come on it's not 
Walmart.

I don't go to anvilfire.com often but I have looked thru the site from 
time to time and thought there was a lot of value there. I think I'll 
check it out now and go to the forums and see what is going on. I might 
even send a few dollars to help keep them afloat and failing that to at 
least let them know that their efforts have not gone un-noticed.

As far as Eds mention that anvilfire was "mismanaged" I know nothing of 
this and as far as I know they are mismanaging their own money which is 
their business not mine. Ed also mentions that anvilfire is "a bit 
arrogant".

It  seems to me that they are not the only ones.

Bob
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On Mar 21, 2005, at 6:52 AM, Ed Thomas wrote:

> Keenjunk, under new management, is thriving just fine as "forgemagic", 
> with
> the same look and feel.  Iforgeiron is back online and has a FAR 
> superior
> format to both anvilfire and forgemagic.   I personally find anvilfire 
> to be
> clumsy and dated, and a bit arrogant.  I almost never go there except 
> in the
> usually vain hope of getting info on a calendar event.  I think the 
> idea of
> ABANA supporting such a board is an affront to those folks who set up 
> and
> maintain the official ABANA board.  The traffic on the ABANA forums is 
> not
> high as you said.  Perhaps it would be higher if you would encourage 
> posting
> on the ABANA board instead of diluting the wealth by going elsewhere...
> especially while using an ABANA resource; this email exploder.  I don't
> appreciate encouraging the squandering of my ABANA dues on such a 
> mismanaged
> enterprise as anvilfire.  If you like the board, give them your money, 
> not
> mine.
> Ed Thomas
>