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Here is content of 2 posts discussing the need for $10 membership dues to pay for Forum software and other costs in 2003

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I am mulling over some options for future features and membership privileges for TALON.

Let Me know which of these if any, would be of interest to you.

SVTLightnings.com - Talonclub.com or Superchargedtrucks.com email address
Space to host your own website. You would have your own mini account on the same server as SVTLightnings.com. It would have most of the features of most shared hosting accounts on most web hosts. The drive space and bandwidth would be limited for $$ reasons.. there would be plenty of space to put up family pictures or truck pictures or whatever. Room enough for 10 or so webpages easy. If you had a domain name you could point the domain name to it.. pictures of your truck and the mods theoretically could be hosted at www.CrawfordsTruck.com for example.
Individual Photo Gallery Category - A place to post any pictures you want. Easier than using the Website above for quickly posting pictures.
Inclusion in the Members contact list here http://talonclub.com/members/contact.php
Inclusion in a TALON Members email list - for direct non public communications via email.
TALON Discounts + Specials from TALON vendors and friends

More to come

I wasn't planning on charging for any of these features.. However I am considering a $10 per year Software Dues per person for 2003. This Forum software costs about $50 or so a year to license and We can use any left over to buy future software or Plaques for an event... Next year Version 3 of this software should be available and they are talking about offering a Content Management System.

With the implementation of annual Dues there would be a Separate Forum setup that was ONLY accessible to the members in good standing. Once we were a club with dues it would likely make sense to have all the cooler features ( like some of the stuff above ) available only to members in good standing. That should help make the $10 easier to swallow.

Let me know what you think ...

Doug

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Examples of domain names that are available if you guys decided to spend $10 bucks to register them

www.moonshine.com
www.crawfordworld.com
www.98cobra.net
www.hihoag.com
www.98cobra.us
www.alllogan.com
www.madmax.tv
www.l8-apex.com
www.l8-apex.us
www.jd-blackwell.com
www.blueoval01.com
www.red2002.net
www.tliss.com

Well you get the idea....

You can look them up in www.networksolutions.com or many other places BUT if you decide to register a name DONT pay more than $10 a year. Lots of places want to charge $35 a year for 2 year minimum... That is the OLD days...
Here is place you can do it for $8.95 a year 1 year at a time
http://www.secureserver.net/default.asp?prog_id=jasontd

PS- I am ****ed www.DOUGSTRUCK.COM is taken... BUT it has never been used and the registration expires dec 7 2002... LOL

Example:

Here is a link to example of why we are using the forum software we do and part of he reason why it costs $10/year
http://talonclub.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=10600#post10600