<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ck1942 @ Feb 23 2009, 08:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
GG - I wish and hope.

As for aspd becoming private... I would counsel the owner to avoid that because the public nature of aspd is both its strength (and to a degree a weakness) but imho public is the way to strong growth.

imho, the very nature of home2 being both semi-open and having vouched private areas is an additional "model" for aspd ownership to consider. Having strongly vouched secured private areas within aspd could be a pattern for the future needs of both board and members.

But, as we all know all too well, nothing on the internet is ever secret nor private for very long. That said, my counsel continues to be -- don&#39;t put anything on the &#39;net that you never want your mom, dad, kid sister or grandkids to see.[/b]
At one point we were all "newbies" -- while it is nice to have private areas -- the only way to grow and add to the vibrancy of the discussion, reviews and ads is to bring in new members, who start as newbies and in time become valuable contributors.

Once everything is back up and functional I would like to see a single site even if there are significant private, access limited areas. It is simply less cumbersome to deal with a single site, IMO.