Posted By:
Jerry Spillman
Certainly, as is the case with the majority of the forums on the Internet there is a plea for donations to sustain their operating costs. I find very few forums without some type of financial requests. Out of the dozen or more forums I browse I found that the two I mentioned are using the same standard template software company that you chose to use. Most other forums use very similar type templates.
Here was a forum where apparently costs exceeded donations:
http://egyptologist.org/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi