Here's a real freaky idea. Follow this for a second:
I agree with GatorVR4 on another post that says donations are just a way to make this site limp along until it goes south again. And who's going to pay for donations when there already is another Contour site that actually HAS the potential to become really great. No I'm not here advertising for them or anything - I'm not getting paid to advertise or something but hear me out.
I talked to Cardoctor and asked him his thoughts on CEG being in trouble. I guess that in his situation they have the capacity to hold the amount of members that CEG has and their bandwidth level is really high (something like 100GB a month). I hear he is going to share a GB of space for another Ford site that is in the same pot.
Why not just sell the Contour.Org name to him or ask him if he would consider taking over the forums operation for this site? The forums here are 99% the most commonly used thing... I've been a member here since June of last year and I don't see anyone interested in anything besides the forums or chat. I think that Lance got lucky with Matt lending him the bandwidth, but with luck it always runs out at some point. I hate to say it - But if CEG has to go it would be a shame to lose all the posts here and conversations. That in itself is almost priceless - If I were an admin I would definately suggest looking into possibly working something out... It's just an idea and it takes alot of stress off of Lance - Plus it consumes bandwidth that is already paid for... Albeit on Ford Contour.Org's server - But not gone and lost forever. Plus I think the animosity between some people on here and that site and Cardoctor is so immaterial that they should grow up, realize that when CEG was down last time he had no problem letting people come over there and get their "daily fix". C'mon people !!! Realize that the answer is right in front of your monitors.. If you are too proud or stupid to admit it you might as well format the hard drive on CEG's server because you've doomed everything learned and discussed here. Consider your obvious choices:
1. Finding a free T1 line. (How many times do you think that CEG is going to get that lucky?) 2. Use a resource that is already out there waiting to be tapped. (Smart move, let someone else pick up the tab while you get to enjoy everything you're used to.)
