"advertising space"?? give me a break!....Rose provided all this TOTALLY free for several years when the internet boom provided free web space. She simply cannot afford hundreds of dollars a month for several gigabytes of space.

As for Max, he is in the same basic situation.....he provides a service which was once supported by his business, and now relies on some donations to keep the database and 6+ years of postings alive.

It is a fact that if even 20% of the people who use Mudcat or Rose's site gave just a few dollars a year, there would be no problem keeping them going.

Neither Rose nor Max profit from any of this...they just feel that what they do is worth it. If not enough others feel that way, it will all eventually go away...that simple.

(gargoyle's posts are at least sort of honest...he feels that "once I got mine, who cares what happens"....but his implication that pyewacket and Rose and 'guest' are somehow in collusion is silly BS!)