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To: marcos who wrote (1250)	10/1/2014 6:46:44 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 1604

This is pretty cool, one of the replies to the first of Brad's posts there ... now i know this character, get a twinge sometimes on seeing her nick, but have to admit she makes a few points here - Message 28675272 Doesn't think much of the small-screen thummer dummers ... nor the fifteen year old begging for his third martini [thinks he's a BHO look-a-like, well wouldn't he need a doobie in hand for that? ... maybe it's the sweater, don't know] Mainly, sees the business model fault in rejecting subscriptions as a form of revenue ... prescient some, because as i understand it, starting last december new subscribers could no longer be ad-free no matter what they pay ... which means death, ultimately, for anything resembling the original Dryer concept In re 'lifetime subscriptions' - sometimes i sell plants, potted or bagged when they're large, been known to offer a lifetime guarantee on them ... can't fool gardeners, with most this brings a twinkle to the eye, and they ask, Lifetime of what, the plant? ... uh huh -g-

To: marcos who wrote (1250)	10/1/2014 9:22:16 PM
From: TEDennis	1 Recommendation Recommended By scion Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1604

That date/time formatting issue was bugging me so much that I considered revamping my world famous message archiving tool to circumvent the issue. The best part about the tool is that it displays only TEXT. None of that graphics BS. And, no ads. It's pretty darned fast. It harvests the posts from user-selected subjects from various investment Forums, then builds its own local database. It allows access to historical posts when you're disconnected, and provides for a lickety-split search. It has most of the features you would expect in a bargain basement personal-use-only tool, except that it's read-only. I never had a need to update, because it was primarily for offline research and rationalization. But, I decided not to update the tool, because it would require too big of an effort for very little return on investment. Sigh ... On the other hand, there are some fairly robust, freebie, text-only bulletin boards out there that could be installed on a friendly server and put to use as an alternative to putting up with some heavy-handed administrators at a certain investment forum we all know and love. In fact, I just so happen to have one of those simplified bulletin boards in use running on a blazing fast server. It's a small system I built for a specific project I started a few years ago. Hmmmm ... Have I mentioned lately that I think censorship sux? Sure is a pretty day. TED