I do agree with Ray though that this forum is kinda going downhill, I realize its incredibly expensive to keep running since we burn up so much bandwidth, and to offset that cost we need the advertisments everywhere, doesn't make it less annoying though lol. Oh well.
I don't know if I entirely agree with the "incredibly expensive" part. Unlimited bandwidth and diskspace hosting packages run around $20 bucks per month with some service providers (eg: Hostgator). I'm suspect the banner advertising program at the top of the pages more than covers the hosting costs and domain name expenses for a year. But let's face it, the owners want to make $$ - thus the Google Advertising you see and the strict rules on self promotion for vendors.
