for the enlightening message. I was certainly one of the people who speculated that this would one day be a for profit site, but mainly because I did not understand how little it takes, financially, to run it.

A geek friend of mine who is familiar with vBulletin did not understand why JL was not getting things back up, and found the story "fishy". He, too, wrote JL offering support.

I gave generously to OBT when its servers crashed two years ago, and John said he raised $10,000 at that point. Does it make any sense to you that running OBT could have cost that? Or that with those resources it should have been down for that long? Or am I just putting you on the spot?

Sorry if I am. But I do feel that I gave generously to a nonprofit which might have used its funds to "buy land" in Second Life, not exactly what I'd expected.

I'm feeling quite at home here, and am glad I can expect this community to continue and thrive.

LizaJane

www.lizajane.org