Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 15:36:08 08/25/04
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On August 25, 2004 at 18:15:17, Omid David Tabibi wrote: --- snip :) >Of the above options choice C looks most reasonable. You have done a great job >running these forums, and if not managed by you, this place won't be the same >thing. However, I'm afraid option C will result in a gradual death of the forum, >as many of those who post only occasionally will cease their membership, and >also almost no new members will join the forum. > >I guess that bandwidth is the most expensive part of running the forums, and I >think we can cut down in that part considerably by limiting the lengths of the >posts. Just look at the huge number of posts which are in reply to the reply of >another reply of... in a thread, which carry with themselves large amounts of >text from previous posts in the thread which has nothing to do with the post >itself. If we just look at the current posts here, the majority of text is >wasted text, which has nothing to do with the post, and is just left over from >previous posts in the thread. > >By limiting the length of posts in a reasonable way, this forum will consume >much less bandwidth, and also storage space. Of course the members must get used >to avoiding the bad habit of carrying all the text from previous posts in their >reply (oops, I just did the same thing in this post!). This should bring the >bandwidth (and storage) cost to a reasonably low level. Those costs can be >covered by putting some advertisements on top of the forum. Google ads seem to >be the best option (e.g., look at chessbase.com, at the left side). They are >non-intrusive plain text ads. > >If you could give us an average monthly bandwidth (in GB) used for the two >forums, we can make a more accurate calculation of costs. --- snip :) Which brings us back to a php or vBulletin type board, where all the responses are listed one after the other and there is no need to requote the previous poster. regards Andy
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