The Asawa Forum of U.S.A. closes indefinately.
Sadly, and although I have not spent too much time on this forum of late, the Asawa forum has now been closed, although you can still read posts, and do some research, the forum is now closed to new posts, and its been dissapointing for so many applicants, especially, as there are thousands more applicants in the Philippines who rely on the site.
That will be a blow to many who need it in the future, but..I suppose Bob the site owner has had enough as he said, the costs of maintaining the forum have not been met by sales of dictionaries, (Tagalog-English) and also Philippine phone cards, stamps etc, so he has decided to call it a day, as it costs nothing to keep the website a read only site, that will be there for the short term, but I think its like a lot of things, they all end in due course.
I know with my own website, it costs me about USD 130.00 a year to maintain the site, and the extra bandwidth required to run it,
the problem with so many of these voluntary websites, is that they are ran on the basis of the site owners enjoyment, once that runs out, or it becomes a burden, many decide they are not worth running, bf.com will for the moment run on, I may take up Keiths offer and run it from his server at the expiry of my hosting package, then its there for all time as an information read only portal, its sad to see but goodbye once and for all time, http://www.asawa.org/asawa
