David Hawkins said:
Herb runs Astromart the right way.
I vote to make it ol' school again and nobody gets on with a Yahoo or Hotmail or any other bullcrap free email addresses. The crooks love those, the honest folks don't mind using their ISP email addresses to register.
I vote to give Herb MORE POWER!!!!
Sorry, I have Transcend Broadband (which offers NO ISP address in my area), we use hotmail, I am not a crook, I support and am a moderator :S
However, I am also a member on homebrewtalk.com, a website devoted to home brewing of beer and other gastronomical delights. Homebrewtalk does not require a fee, but you have limited access for free (no classified adds are allowed to be posted without the $25 YEARLY fee). A $25 YEARLY fee allows complete access, as well as add free content and a couple of other goodies. A lifetime membership, ($125 I think) allows you to have an E-mail account linked to the server and a couple of oother goodies. Homebrewtalk sees A LOT of traffic, and might be a good model to look at for A mart in that it is more subscription based.