Kenchar,

My original criticism did not mention the word 'free' [ please check ]. 'Non-commercial' has now been changed to 'free'. Is this forum a free site ? Of course it is, but non-commercial ?. Free site is a much easier term to defend than non-commercial which neither Calcurate [ should try being accurate ] nor Imthegun try to defend. They are now both defending the term 'free site'. From whom ? The non-commercial claim is another matter [ my original point ] and has been ignored. Both writers here are buddies and both have sites desperate for exposure [ only one has a site counter and it's 29 hits in two months means desperate for exposure ].

The web is full of free 'link' sites that make money just by being link sites. Some sell a product [ besides exposure ] as well. Are the yellow pages non-commercial because they have no visible product and are free to visit ?

There are heaps of racing sites we all use that have plenty of free content, but would you call them non-commercial ?
'Free site' is so slippery a term that it can be defended against any criticism so when use of the term non-commercial [site] is attacked, just change your term to 'free site' and protect that instead as if non-commercial was never mentioned. It's so meaningless it makes me want to throw-up.

Free air conditioning, free bonus points, free entry, free extra 40%, free money back !!!
Yeah, right.

Cheers.


[ This Message was edited by: crash on 2003-12-04 06:08 ]