Airwarfareforum.com

[JMSmith]

hi Ruy, could you leave this here for a couple of days for maximum coverage. thank you.


Airwarfareforum.com
hello gentlemen,
some of you will know the site as now closed, this is for several reasons, the activity on the site by the members had dropped of to a point where it was not worth all the hastle with the site hosting company Globat.
there latest effort was to stop the use of mass emails, without informing the site owners, this is happening with a lot of host, something to do with reducing spam on the net.
the above events have led to my own lack of interest in the site, also my time is now taken up with aircraft drawing and profiling.
the good news is that all the images are safe and the database is downloaded and safely stored for any future use.
i have up to now 22/8/09 recieved only two email about the site closer,if there had been more, i might have reversed my decision, so it looks like the members have moved on, this is natural progression, people with special interest start their own sites, likewise foreign members start their own site speaking in their own language.
for the most part it as been a good 6 years and i have made a lot of good friends, just to name a few, Dogsbody2, Jan, ChrisMag, Zamex and Peter who without their help the job would have been 100 times harder.
and a very special mention for Eric, whom as put up with me panicing on a regular basis because of some minor fault with the board, thanks Eric, you can rest now!
if anyone feels the need to contact me they can on, sagindragin@yahoo.co.uk
or look for me on, http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/foru...file-painting/
or, http://theflyingboatforum.hostingdel...7c8ddb26edc9e7
and i am still active on the Wings of Peace group.
　
thank you
john

[Larry deZeng]

I'm not familiar with the site, John, but the events you described have happened to many other web sites over the past year and a half or so. For some, visitations have declined by 60% to 70%. For others who attempted to set up a forum it was the disappointment of not being able to attract participants. Perhaps the novelty of the "interest" or "hobby" forum has worn off since the heydays of 2000-07 and, as you noted, this is a natural progression. But it does make one wonder whether this is a pervasive loss of interest or whether individuals have just moved on to other things.