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1.) Even with the many volunteers doing a great job and those of you who have been donating regularly to keep Factnet going, Factnet still can not regularly raise enough in donations to function properly. We are currently at the lowest bank balance we have had in 13 years!

2.) One of the reasons we always need your regular donations is the never-ending and often escalating battle with some cults and individuals who are spamming and/or hacking the Factnet website to shut down our voice and your forums.

3.) There are key security people that we do have to pay on a regular basis to fix the hacking and other software security problems. These security costs have continued to escalate as the site keeps growing.

4.) Factnet's discussion forums have turned into about 70 % theological discussions and 30% discussions about cult and mind control practices. Even though these discussions can do much good, it still means that 70% of all discussion forum posting content is simple not part of our cult tactics education mission.

5.) We simply cannot technically run the existing discussion forums properly any longer without upgrading the current discussion software and creating a new MYSQL forum postings data base on our server. This is a considerable job in software and server labor and related costs and, we do not have the funds to do this.

6.) Because of our rapid growth, we are also getting more forum related administrative requests and more difficult-to-handle forum posting related threats than ever before, and these are consuming far more management and staff time than ever before.

The proposed solutions for your vote:

1.) Shut down the whole discussion board down completely until we have a minimum of the needed $12,000 for the next 12 months of Factnet operations or,


2.) Immediately set up new forum software that will allow us begin charging each person who posts in our discussion groups $10 per year (lurkers could still lurk for free,) or


3.) Transfer all theological discussions and most of the discussion board forums to a new group of trustworthy forum individuals willing to put up the funding and staffing to maintaining some new kind of completely new discussion board not directly part or associated with Factnet, or


4.) Somehow convince the 14,000 registered discussion forum users and newsletter subscribers of Factnet to click the Factnet online donation button so that we immediately raise at least $12,000 for minimum funding to keep the discussion board functioning just as it is now (but with a new secure discussion forum software upgrade) and Factnet functioning for the next 12 months.