Here is what some readers had to say about VNN. All quotes are from letters and surveys.

"Firstly may I congratulate you all for maintaining this most helpful and nourishing of sites for Vaishnavas to visit."

"Thank you for your success at providing us with VNN... a most excellent means of communication for the world wide devotee community."

"Please accept my dandavats and admiration for your special service. Having my own WWW site since 1995 I am especially impressed by your excellent site design and functions. I don't know how many awards you have received but you sure get my vote!"

"Thank you for publishing this story on a hot topic. I sent it to VNN and Chakra on the same day over two weeks ago. VNN got the news out while Chakra is still sitting on it. Your prompt attention is impressive and appreciated."

"I appreciate your efforts to keep us all informed about current activities happening within the general community of devotees. Thank you very much and may Srila Prabhupada bless your intelligence so that you might be an instrument for positive and productive change for the benefit of all vaisnavas."

"I grieve continuosly at the state of Prabhupada's society. I can't thank you enough for the informed often controversial, always bold forum you provide. It makes me feel welcome and a part of a world-wide devotee community - despite my own present empoverished spiritual condition. I may be in exile - but I won't be silent anymore. Keep up your inspiring and honest work - perhaps you are the last leg standing."

"Your original intent to provide an open forum for all devotees has certainly borne great fruit. If anything can be done to resolve the currently deplorable condition of what was once Srila Prabhupada's movement your site must be counted as one of the most constructive factors."

"While I'm here, I'd like to commend you on your steady updates, and even your correcting a recent problem I had. Going to your site has practically become part of my daily sadhana!" - 8/98

"I think you are doing a great job, I like the way VNN has created a tremendous forum for unbias discussions." - 8/98

"I will add that I greatly appreciate the great service you devotees have done with your site. A senior devotee gave me the address some months ago. I was amazed. Thank you for your courage. The site is, in my opinion, a manifestation of Krishna's purifying wind. In other words, VNN is vastly more than "a breath of fresh air." 7/24/98

"Congratulations on your fabulous web site. You name yourselves after CNN; the world leader in communications who has earned a deserved reputation for in-depth, perceptive, intelligent, relatively unbiased & accurate news reporting. So does VNN." 6/15/98

"Congratulations on reaching the one Million hit mark. VNN has been, and continues to be, an invaluable contribution to the Vaisnava community world-wide. In an environment that for the past twenty years has not encouraged much freedom of thought or objectivity, VNN has been an oasis of straight-forward, unbiased and unfiltered information. Keep up your valiant efforts to inform, involve and inspire us all." 5/24/98

"I feel renewed hope for Krsna consciousness when I see freedom of speech, and devotees with common sense and integrity. You are doing a wonderful service, thank you very, very much!" 5/24/98

"Wonderful site, prabhus! It is my favorite. Very professionally done." 4/11/98

"I visit VNN everyday. I recommend it to others, both personally and thru Links. You are such good devotees, giving so much service, it truly humbles me." 3/27/98

"I just wanted to compliment you on a first class (If not the most first class) Vaisnava news site & forum I have come across. It's really nice, not to mention extremely important to have an unbiased forum for the devotees to voice their opinions, gripes, feelings and ideas and to be able to have an alternative news source besides the "Bonafide" & "Approved" sources that are instituted within Iskcon."

"First of all, let me thank you for this wonderful forum which you have provided so that sincere Vaishnavas may engage in healthy dialogue and open up lines of communication. VNN is a remarkably innovative web-site and I applaud you for your time and energy in making this valuable news-source available to all of us."

"Thanks for all your good service to the society of devotees and mankind. Revealing the truth may not be a palatable task, but it's certainly needed if we want to help Mahaprabhu's prediction come true even in this lifetime."

"Since I've been reading your site and recommending it to others for the last several months, I guess it's about time to write so you'll know that you are greatly appreciated. Remember, you must be doing something right to invoke the wrath of those who are so much more advanced than us humble prabhus. You should feel flattered that a copykat news site has suddenly emerged to prove that there really is more news to go around than we were led to believe. All in all I have found your site to be as impartial as it can. You have given all Vaishnava news a spot, not just this camp or that side or that Math. In this age of bs, it's nice to see someone make the effort to give us a Free News Forum. Perhaps in the future i will be able to contribute some News of worth."

News Content: Excellent
New section: A debating section-please
Best Section: Your apparent unbiased reporting
Comment: Please continue with this very important service, Thank you

"Keep it up! Don't ever go down! Freedom of speech is non-existant in ISKCON. Your forum is so important! You are a God send! Don't get too negative. Stick to facts not faults."

"Whoever you are, your service is invaluable."

"First of all, my heartfelt congratulations to you for your VNN project which, in my opinion, distinguishes itself by its broad-mindedness and unbiased, uncensored reporting. I am sure, as the word goes around and more and more devotees get Internet connections, VNN will become increasingly important as "the" meeting point for Vaisnavas from all over the globe -- the first place to access after entering cyberspace, just as others check the latest news on CNN (if only VNN would load as fast as CNN does)."

"Keep up the good work!! Looking forward to getting involved. Hearing about your site inspired me to get this new computer. Which I'll use to glorify His Divine Grace."

"First I want to say that I very much appreciate your WEB page - the whole concept seems very well done, very open, very decent, very much a credit to the Vaishnav community. I just found the site today.... Thank you."

"You should be commended for the excellent job you've done with VNN. My opinion is not worth much, but I give you great applause."

"This is simply a marvelous website!!"

"Your site is very professional, I liked it a lot. All of you are doing a great job. Keep it up."

"After seeing your vnn web site for the first time today, I wanted to send you congratulations for your efforts in bringing a powerful information source to the worldwide devotee community. Thanks for doing this--I believe Krsna and Prabhupada are pleased."

"Best website for me anyway, we need non-sectarian magazines like this"

"I just wanted to thank you for providing a well formulated and truly reputable forum for news about the Vaisnava community. A day doesn't go by when I don't check your site at least once. Your news is objective, fair and well researched. I look forward to the continued growth of your site."

"I thank you for your ambitious undertaking. The site is of a very high quality and will no doubt be welcomed by many devotees around the world."

"MORE NEWS PLEASE!!! NOT ENOUGH!!!! MORE!!! MORE!!! MORE!!!"

"Don't ever compromise the truth. Your website is so important. It helps to counteract the many lies fed to us by the GBC."

"Whoever you are, your service is invaluable."

"I hope this site becomes the best interactive site for all devotees of all levels worldwide to get info regarding the vaisnava societies"

"Excellent site, well balanced, much needed!"

"Your site is very well done! I'm delighted to find out that someone is doing this! It is much needed."

"Your on-line publication is very well done, and I would be happy to represent it".

"It is a wonderful idea, the VNN site, excellently done, my congratulations."

"I hope you get good participation. - Great site - very well done."

"Thank you for a great web site, and a great service to all of the Vaishnavas."

"All I have to say is that your design is great. The content is controversial but the layout was very well done."

"You have the best programed vaishnava news web site I've come across so far. I like your layout. The only thing I'd suggest improving is the long downloadtime for the first page."

"Just wanted to say that I appreciate your efforts at VNN."

"The content of your site is fantastic."

"Aloha! Great site!"