You can be sorry all you want but it doesn't make people eager to spend the money you want for a membership, especially when those monies were supposedly to be spent to cure a problem that still exists a year later.
Like it or not, there are two VERY separate issues here.
The SnoWest Forum Servers are what the paid member's money went towards. And that problem has been solved.
What happened over the weekend was outside of the forum software/hardware and outside of my control.
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