[susan53]

Thank you! One of the things I've really appreciated in the last six months, since I've been running the site, is how willing everyone else is to help. Not only with publicity, providing links and plugs and so on, but also with practical help. Several times I've written to people saying I really like how you do X on your site. can you tell me how to do it on mine? - and received really long helpful Emails in return. I can't imagine walking into another "non-virtual" business and saying a) will you mention me in your publicity and b) can you tell me how to provide your key service - OK, for most people, their sites aren't 100% of their income and not all of them have commercial objectives as their prime objective. But however commercial the sites, the feeling of collaboration rather than competition has been the same. If this is the start (however tentative) of an alternative business paradigm, I'm all for it.