Hi

Yes, I agree it is a very harsh way of advertising.  Unfortunately there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.  The board is free because we allow the hosts to place their advertisers details at the top of the page.  We can pay for the 'gold' option which is advertisement free - but that involves about £10/mnth.  It may not sound like much but coupled with our other runnning cost we can't justify spending anymore than absolutely necessary.

It's amazing how many people don't contribute to the running of HAVOCA.  I appreciate everyone is hard up, but the reality of it is if every member of the board contributed just £1/$2 then we could afford to run this board for a year.

Funding, or should I say the lack of it, is my biggest nightmare and could even be the end of HAVOCA eventually.  Lets hope it doesn't come to that.

All the best

Jamie

ps let me know if you have any fund raising ideas.  I once sent an email campaign asking 650 users of HAVOCA for a £1 donation.  We only received £70 and that was from three donars.  I can't seem to get the message across that this site doesn't run itself.  Of course I'm eternally grateful for all the donations (you know who you are!), but I still think just £1 is worth everything this site gives. HELP IF YOU CAN,.... ANYONE.