*Big News*

[Ryan]

Alrighty, let me first start off by pasting the letter that those jerks at forumhoster sent me:

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Dear user,

As stated in our AUP (http://www.forumhoster.com/index.php?page=aup) we
have reserved the right to close down a forum in case of excessive
bandwith usage.

Since 01/01/2004 your forum has generated 10+ GB traffic, which is
almost
10 times as much as other high-traffic forums.

After carefull consideration we've decided to close down your forum.
We'll deactive your forum on 10 Jan, giving you a couple of days to
migrate your forum to an other host (like ipbfree.com).

Kind regards,
ForumHoster.com

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So because we were such a good forum and had so many posts and things they shut us down.... and it wasn't nearly enough notice (1 and a half days) for me to save all the files. So, I've emailed forumhoster and kindly informed them that they should open up the form again and let me get all the files. If they say no, I'll need your help in mass emailing them.

After I get the files I can migrate them to our new website (well, hopefully our new website)- more details on that later. If this works out, we're going to have one of the best, biggest website/forums on the net. More later.

Cheers,
Ryan

[Maxi Muffin]

omg thats awful, will we b able to acess our fanfics coz me, along wif alot of other ppl, didnt save our fics to our comps, so if not, then we've lost them all

[Ali]

*waits 4 more news*

[:::~*mandi loves aaron*~:::]

yah ur right maxi!! i need my fanfic lol, oooh nooo!!

[iluvaaron]

Maxi said:

omg thats awful, will we b able to acess our fanfics coz me, along wif alot of other ppl, didnt save our fics to our comps, so if not, then we've lost them all

thts wat ryan ment by he's trying to get all the files :)tee hee

ryan tel me if u need help again...

[:::~*mandi loves aaron*~:::]

yah ill help if u need it to! i wanna do naything to get the forum back!! ive been sooo bored altrely!

[parsnipgirl]

i know!! the nets not the same without the forum.. and if u need us 2 mass email them, we will *nods* coz i think we're getting quite good at that sort fo thing

[Charlotte]

omg thats so stupid closin the forum cos we post on it alot wat else do they think we use it for lol

[Jenna]

Maxi said:

omg thats awful, will we b able to acess our fanfics coz me, along wif alot of other ppl, didnt save our fics to our comps, so if not, then we've lost them all

Yep, I didn't save 'Gone' or my fic with Ben!!!!!!

*swears at forumhosters*

[aaronsangel]

thats absolutely eeeeeevil! surely they cant just close it down with that much notice... its ridiculous!

[Ryan]

Here is the letter I wrote them... let's see if they reply tomorrow:

I fail to see anywhere in your AUP where it says that you can "close down a forum in case of excessive bandwith usage." The policy states: "If you do not have a bandwidth limit set, you must keep in mind that excess bandwith use will result in a (temporary) block on your forum. We will 'judge' your bandwith use by comparing it to other users"

Now according to your own rules, it seems that you cannot just deactivate a forum that uses too much bandwidth and certainly it does not say that you can downgrade us to a free account. It only says you can temporarily put a block on the forum.

I do not want to get in any sort of legal disputes about this, but I think the way this was handeled was very unfair. I will be satisfied if you open back up my forum and the ftp server for a period of one week so that I can have adequate time to transfer my files and my members can save anything they need to from the forum. Thanks.


-Ryan

[aaronsangel]

*claps* well said ryan! thats really good! they cant ignore you now!

[Seanie]

This sucks so will we just use this one

[*~Leila]

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No fair!!
I mean, our forum was sooo koo!
and then, they close it down cause of that
poop faces...ah...me will help!!

[iluvaaron]

oohhh....ryan *claps* thts a gd letta....mine wud jst probs say: give us bac our forum u gits!!! *shrugs* wat can i say....

they'll have 2 listen 2 u now tho!