• Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Posted 08/15/2025
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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Addendum: 01/10/2026
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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Damned crap..............

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So today it appears that the lightspeed code of the server had a problem and crapped out. Could not restart it myself from the webhost manager.

This internet schtuff is getting old REAL fast....... :angry: :angry:

Seems to be a new problem every single BLASTED day..................................................................................
 
There was something to be said for getting pricelists in the mail...
 
gotta move the edit button further from the quote button....at least I caught it (again)
Gary O said:
Rich..... Count to ten and try not to throw things.
Count to ten, exhale slowly, hold.......and fire repeatedly
Repeat as needed
 
It doesn't help matters much that I have a flu or the cold or some damned germs...... I think I need to drag out one of the 50 calibers and blow up something. But that certainly wouldn't help my headache much.

My wife tells me that I grind my teeth all night long while I am asleep. No damned wonder....................... :bandhead0
 
I think that like many other professions, being a webmaster has a rapidly growing technical component; it must be frustrating to be at the mercy of the new geeknocrats that seem to be a part of many businesses. It may or may not be fortunate that you yourself have a technical background since some of the stuff that happens is beyond self repair; you may have enough knowledge and experience to realize what the problem is, but it might require outside geek assistance to fix.
Hope your flu goes away soon.
 
I think of the internet as the REVENGE OF THE NERDS............ :ack2:
 
being a webmaster does not have an upside at all...........................................


1) People upset the site is down

2) People upset the site is slow

3) People upset the site does not have this or that

4) People upset the site is down becuase you are adding this or that

5) People upset the site is slow becuase you added this or that

And repeat over and over and over
 
Gary, don't forget the:
"Why do *I* have to follow the rules?!?"
"Why can't I post my giant pictures?"
"Wherez te pronz?"
Ad nauseum.

Rich, hope your flu gets better, and I know two other sites that have gone down(hard drive issue on one, and server issue on the other) so it must be that time of the month for the interwebs.
 
WebSlave said:
It doesn't help matters much that I have a flu or the cold or some damned germs...... I think I need to drag out one of the 50 calibers and blow up something. But that certainly wouldn't help my headache much.

Ear plugs, AND Ear muffs. :yesnod:

Always makes you feel better to blow the crap out of something. It's my favorite therapy actually. LOL
 
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