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        <title>Welcome! - Swap Forum Announcements - please read!</title>
        <description>Read this forum first to find out the latest information.</description>
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            <title>X( Registration X( (no replies)</title>
            <link>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,7,7#msg-7</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If you are new to our Swap Forum, you will need to sign up before you can post to the forums.  The email system is not working yet, so please be patient and I will try to approve members as quickly as possible (hopefully, at least once per day during the busy times a month or so prior to each swap and maybe less frequently in between swaps).  <b>Your membership will not be approved immediately</b>, because I have to check the site manually!<br />
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Brandon]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Brandon7</dc:creator>
            <category>Swap Forum Announcements - please read!</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 04:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,6,6#msg-6</guid>
            <title>(:D Donations to cover our costs (:D (no replies)</title>
            <link>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,6,6#msg-6</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The East Tennessee Plant Swap is an entirely free event, but it does cost the coordinators a little to reserve the park and pay for hosting services for this website. A donation of two or three dollars per person, with a maximum of five dollars per family, would help us cover these expenses.  A donation jar can be found at each swap event.  No money is required to attend the swap and nothing will ever be sold at our events.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Brandon7</dc:creator>
            <category>Swap Forum Announcements - please read!</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 04:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,5,5#msg-5</guid>
            <title>Invasive Plants (no replies)</title>
            <link>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,5,5#msg-5</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The East Tennessee Plant Swap would like to strongly suggest that participants refrain from growing, planting, or swapping plants that are invasive (environmentally damaging) to our local ecosystem.  Invasive plants are more than just fast growers and rapid reseeders...they are plants that cause significant displacement or harm to native populations of plants or animals.  Not all weedy/aggressive plants are invasive!<br />
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The Tennessee Invasive Plant Council (TN-IPC) keeps up with the plants that pose the worst dangers in our state.  A list of plants to avoid can be found at <a href="http://www.tnipc.org/invasive-plants/" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">www.tnipc.org/invasive-plants/</a>.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Brandon7</dc:creator>
            <category>Swap Forum Announcements - please read!</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 04:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,4,4#msg-4</guid>
            <title>Is there a direct link to the Plant Swap Forum? (no replies)</title>
            <link>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,4,4#msg-4</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If you want to go directly to the Plant Swap Forum without going though the East Tennessee Plant Swap homepage, use this link:  http://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Brandon7</dc:creator>
            <category>Swap Forum Announcements - please read!</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 03:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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            <guid>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,3,3#msg-3</guid>
            <title>What happened to all the previous discussions? (3 replies)</title>
            <link>https://www.easttnplantswap.com/forum/read.php?1,3,3#msg-3</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Initially, it was decided that the East Tennessee Plant Swap&#039;s website would be hosted by GoDaddy.  That turned out to be a HUGE mistake!  GoDaddy was a horrible, terrible, awful company.  They were rarely helpful, consistently difficult to deal with, and out to take advantage of their customers at every opportunity.<br />
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In early 2017, it was determined that we absolutely had to change hosts.  Because the programming was a little messy to start with, and because of the complexity of moving the Phorum database, this was a sizeable task.  I backed up all the files and tried to clean up the HTML chaos as much as possible.<br />
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I was unsure of the steps needed to move the MySQL data base (containing all our previous Plant Swap Forum data).  Someone was recommended to help with the move, and that person seemed very willing and able to do the job.  She secured all the files, including the MySQL data.  After initially doing most of the work, this person simply walked away and became un-contactable.  I have no idea what happened (family problems, etc?).  After an unbelievable effort to try to recontact her, with no response, I finally had to give up.  She had, in effect, stolen our database.<br />
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I have moved the website, but have lost all the old data.  I had to set up the Plant Swap Forum, again, from scratch.  I&#039;m sorry the old information was lost, but my attempt to save it just didn&#039;t work.<br />
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Brandon]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Brandon7</dc:creator>
            <category>Swap Forum Announcements - please read!</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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