Subj : Re: MontyPythonPages.com will be closing down To : On-liner From : Cardinal Fang Date : Sat Jan 14 2006 06:09 pm From: "Cardinal Fang" Awww. Thats bad news. How about a free site (like I'm on?) AND How about donating all your Python goodies to the Cardinal Fang retirement fund and Python archive? CF -- Cardinal Fang's Python Site http://www.geocities.com/fang_club No Spam please - I hate the stuff. REPLY ADDRESS IS FAKE. Please contact me at "latinum" at "hotmail" dot "com" "On-liner" wrote in message news:1137212821.046122.294930@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > The hosting is up for renewal in April this year. Unless a miracle > happens (or lots of donations) then the site will close soon after > that. > > It's a shame really. The site gets plenty of hits and loads of positive > comments in the guest book. I have a huge number of other places > linking to the site - including the BBC - and appear in the top 10 in > most major search engines for the majority of Python related searches, > but no one seems willing to help me pay for it all. In the years from > 2000 to 2006 I've had just two small donations. So the reality now is > that I can't justify funding it any more. > > I shall also have to sell my Python books, videos, mugs, CDs, etc etc > etc. I'm not sure yet, but I may put up a page on the site or sell > them via eBay. I'd be much happier to sell them in bulk to a real > Python fan, though it would need to be someone in the UK or postage > would be prohibitive. > --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5 * Origin: FidoNet MONTE <--> alt.fan.monty-python (1:379/45) .