I would be happy to support too. PayPal would be my preferred way to transfer money: it's international, it's free, it's reliable, making an account goes fast and it works very easy - used it many times.

I am just so delighted members are coming forward to enable our wonderful board to continue. Surely, it is the ideal for us to financially contribute so we can at least both maintain the forum's continuity and also not lose all the previous messages of years standing , many of which contain beautifully written information and wonderfully informed opinions and conversations. 

Yes I tend to use PayPal but happy to use Venmo. Please let me know final yearly tally for each of us and who to send the funds through to. Cheers, Dave. 

David, et al.,

Thanks for all the work you have done administering this forum, David!

I would also be willing to contribute to its continuation.

I read about the board's possible imminent demise in "Bing". I have to admit I haven't used it as regularly lately, but I do still check it, search out information in old conversations and occasionally post.

A few thoughts:
1. With people willing to chip in, it does seem that keeping this existing forum going would be the easiest way forward.
2. I have used PayPal and Zelle, and could probably use Venmo, if necessary. I think I would prefer to pay less frequently, and of course get any discounts.
3. I definitely agree that loosing all the valuable threads in this forum would be a shame. I do sometimes search old conversations for detailed discussion on various topics. I am curious what you will find out from their webhost about archiving.
4. I also agree that moving to a new service could be disruptive and we could lose momentum, as well as losing all the existing conversations. If there is a way to move the existing database to a new, free service, that might be nice, but perhaps a lot more trouble than just paying to continue the existing forum.
5. I have been attending the ICC Zoom meetings, and I was hoping those might generate more activity on this forum. I love the Zoom meetings, but there are so many great presentations and time is limited, so there isn't really an opportunity for in-depth discussion. It would be nice if some of the topics raised there would turn into conversations that are continued here. It seems like there could be a good synergy.

Cheers,
Jim






 

Hello David,
I don't have Paypal, either but I have a Western Union account and would be happy to do so from there if that is possible? 

It's very similar to PayPal. It's a worldwide, online money exchanging service. 
Here's a link to it:
https://www.westernunion.com/gb/en/home.html?gclid=1f876411a6591276ac110e7efedd2aae&gclsrc=3p.ds&msclkid=1f876411a6591276ac110e7efedd2aae&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CN~GB%20WU%20Brand_PR~DIG_BS~LOWFNL_MK~GB_CA~BRND_CH~SEARCH_DS~NONE_SA~Broad_AID~N%2FA_OB~CNV_PK~NCUS_PB~Bing_AT~WEB_FF~Brand_ID~G22&utm_term=western%20union&utm_content=AG~Brand_OR~NONE_SR~NONE_TG~NONE_MTL~MLTI_KT~NA_LG~EN_FF~WU%20UK_ID~OSE0003EWQ