| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 29 Oct 2000 at 15:31:42 |
| Subject: | Re: (unknown) |
Hello Mark
On 29-Oct-00, Mark Wilson wrote:
>> > As many people who know me actually can testify AmiBench means alot to
>> > me, I have said on many occasions "AmiBench is my way of saying thanks to
>> > the Amiga community".
>
>> I'll second that. I know just how much time and effort Mark and the other
>> members of Amibench put into it, often for little or no financial reward.
>
> Currently we make nothing from AmiBench, and Yes we have commercial banners
> on our site, which only pay for development costs of the site, and of course
> hosting.
Yes indeed, people sometimes forget about the hidden costs of a site such as
yours. There's a big difference between putting up a few pages on a home site
compared to running an organisation or commercial site.
>> It's not anti-competitive to only have certain banners on your site, that's
>> him being plain silly. If it was, you'd have to have banners for every
>> other competing service or product on your site as well. The mind boggles.
>> :)
>
>> If you look, we have commercial banners on AmiBench for alsorts of things,
>> from price match sites, to amazon.
> I know now that this guy had no reason to report us to trading standards,
> other than to put the fear of god into me.
If nothing else, at least you're a little wiser on such matters for the
future.
> I had a very bad week last week :(
Knowing how much this has played on your mind, I must congradulate you for the
cool clam responses you've given and the professional manner in which you've
handled it, something that Mr Connolly could learn a lot from.
Vote "None of the above" for President.
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