In a way, it's funny this board even exists any longer. I mean, it's not like it's making money or being used as billboard for all those shiny new game accoutrements Hunter's putting out every quarter.
A couple years ago I was lurking on a D&D board whose owner/admin had essentially disappeared. Somehow, the bills kept being paid, moderators were in charge, and the posters--about 30 AD&D players age 18 through 25--were well behaved. It was a nice, cozy, abandoned community, floating out there, through the long starry night of the World Wide Web.
CotI is like Silent Running.