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Re: Supporting Brickshelf so it doesn't go away!!!
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Jun 2005 22:27:59 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Clark Stephens wrote:

That's assuming that money is the problem. <snip>
and Kevin certainly hasn't said so.
In fact, he's said very little of anything at all,

Umm, excuse me? To quote from here:
http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/

"Due to the loss of our major sponsor,..."

Exactly what English definition of sponsor are you using?

Let's fill in the rest, shall we?

"Due to the loss of our major sponsor, Instruction and Catalog scans are no
longer available at Brickshelf.com."

That says absolutely nothing about the (IMHO) more important issue of user
pictures on Brickshelf, which I consider its primary purpose.  The instructions
and catalog scans are available elsewhere, and could pretty easily be re-hosted
someplace new if necessary.

The crisis at hand is whether Brickshelf itself is going away, or is going to be
frozen (not accepting new uploads), as Kevin said might be the case.  And
despite numerous calls here in the last week along the lines of "Let's have a
funding drive," Kevin has utterly failed to say anything like "Yes, that would
help, thank you very much."

If money were the primary problem (with keeping Brickshelf alive for
user-contributed content), I'd think he would have spoken up by now.

Best,
- Joe



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  Re: Supporting Brickshelf so it doesn't go away!!!
 
(...) He has: (2 URLs) I don’t think fundrasing drives are a viable long-term option (we need somewhat reliable monthly cashflow), we certainly will not turn away impromptu sponsors!" Clark (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Supporting Brickshelf so it doesn't go away!!!
 
(...) Umm, excuse me? To quote from here: (URL) to the loss of our major sponsor,..." Exactly what English definition of sponsor are you using? Clark PS As for 'interest', the galleries are still online, the approvals of member's pictures are still (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)

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