Results from the call for donations....

[Rich Z]

I have decided to remove the list of donators to this site. Not only am I terribly behind in keeping it up to date (and there is little chance I will be able to do so), some people have requested that their names NOT be posted on the list.

So with the above in mind, I feel it is best to just remove the list, rather than have an incomplete one, where someone might feel slighted because of my failure to keep it updated.

In any event, I truly appreciate all of the people helping me out here with the donations. It has gone a long way to helping me pay for custom programming, support programming when needed, as well as being able to afford a quality server at a quality data center. It also allows me the opportunities to explore other avenues to offer you all even more bells and whistles as well as other upcoming sites that you may find of interest.

THANK YOU ALL!

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[NEWReptiles]

Thanks for posting RZ. I was wondering if it was helping.

Al (gordon) Guetzkow

[Neil Gubitz]

Hey Rich.... What's the problem?? Didn't MY $50 count???

....Neil

[John Apple]

Hey Rich
I sent ya 40 via snail mail , I am guessing it did not arrive yet

[NEWReptiles]

I dont think you guys count.

[WebSlave]

I did not include advertisers in the list, since I believe everyone knows they are contributors. Besides you guys are all listed on your very own Supporters Page (http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/supporters.html).

Speaking of which, 5 of the 7 renewal notices I sent out on Friday have had positive returns. And there is another advertiser that lapsed that is trying hard to get it together to come back.

So maybe things are turning around.

Thanks everyone.

[Ken Harbart]

LOL..Hey now, I was hoping to rank somewhere on that list!

[WebSlave]

Dang Ken, I overlooked yours somehow. FACE IS RED!! Yours came right in the thick of things. I remember sending you a reply, but I must not have printed it out. I went by the printouts when I made up the list.

Sorry guy! I've got you in there now.

Jeez, did I miss anyone else??

[WebSlave]

Oh yeah, while I am at it. I haven't been to the post office box recently. Darn computer problems been keeping me busy. But I'll be running by there on Tuesday.

Thanks you guys.

[Ricks Reptiles]

As you can see from all the donations there are a lot of people who love this site. I think the thanks is to you (Rich) for giving all of us a great place to come to.

I am glad to see so many people help out!:D

[Gary Walsch]

Maybe I am wrong here but I feel that list should be a heck of a lot longer. I would hate to see things end there. Rich is there a way of updating that list ? C'mon everyone cough up one stinkin dollar !


Gary

[WebSlave]

Uhh, Gary, except for three donations that came in today, it IS uptodate.

And I'm going to add them just as soon as I finished his message.

[Gary Walsch]

Don't mean to be a pest Rich it's just that IMHO that list should be a lot longer from all the people who use this website. There are 71 people on that list ( unless I miscounted ) and you said that there was actually three more that you have not added yet, which would bring the total count to 74 ( respectively ). Now if there are about 3,000 active users then IMO that is a really small percentage of just over 2%. I don't think it would be unreasonable to ask for 10% of the active users to step up.


Take a minute and think if this was a paysite ............ C.mon kick in a buck or two !! Where are you going to get this much entertainmnet, information, etc. for free ? This is a great site and if you didn't agree then you wouldn't keep coming back !!! Think about how much you might miss this site if Rich just got tired of doing everything and paying for everything and said " SCREW IT " or how stupid you would feel if because of expenses it was turned into a paysite and then just for the priveledge of posting an animal for sale it cost you say $50 a year to be able to do that when you could have done that for free ?

Gary

[WebSlave]

Gary,

Don't be so hard on people. I am actually VERY surprised as many people have donated as they have. I had several people suggest I do this for quite a long time now and thought it would be a waste of my time to even try. But when advertisers began dropping out, I REALLY got worried.

If all of the people saying they are working on banners to advertise here come through with their promises, then I will be a happy camper and won't have to sweat it about the bills I have to pay for the server. I got the cheapest server with the most 'oomph' that I could afford, so with a few extra bucks, maybe I could get one with a little more beef. And I would REALLY feel a whole lot more secure if I could afford to have nightly backups done of the server. But that additional $1000+ per year is hard to swallow.

Anyone out there know how to set up a mirror site? If I could do a nightly copy to a backup server, I would feel a lot better. You all do realize, that if the hard drive crashes on the server, then ALL of this could be lost? I have been doing SQL dumps of the database, but I don't have a clue if that will be sufficient to bring it all back or not. Certainly having to rebuild and reinstall everything from scratch will be one major headache. Fortunately, hard crashes aren't all that common (I specified an IBM SCSI hard drive on the server), but they do happen.

[Glenn Bartley]

Rich,

I have a confession to make, and it shames me to do so.

There I was starting to get upset, because I had been checking the General Business Discussions and the Discussions About This Site forums pretty frequently to hopefully see some thanks posted for the donations. I, of course, did not see such a posting on those forums. Yes that bothered me somewhat; and now it bothers me and shames me even more that I was getting upset over nothing (as usual). I guess I never would have imagined that thanks would be posted here in the BOI, but when I think of it in retrospect, I guess this is the appropriate place. Afterall, this is the forum in which we either call em bad guys or good guys, and I guess you posting your thanks here is your way of calling us good guys.

Sorry I doubted your gratitude even for a moment. I really should know you better by now, you are a class act. Thanks for the nice thank you note to everyone. It has been a pleasure to help you out because your site certainly has been a worthwhile diversion and has helped me out a few times.

Best regards,
Glenn Bartley

[WebSlave]

Glenn,

I wish I could say my logic about where to post this thread was that deeply thought out, but I thought the BOI would be best simply because it is the most heavily traveled forum on this site. And I really wasn't sure this would be appropriate at all, since not everyone really wants to be publicly thanked like this.

I have to admit I am pretty humbled by the number of people whom have contributed. The uncountable number of times I have gotten frustrated by some of the shenanigans going on in this site and some of the hurdles I have had to overcome just keeping this up and running have several times gotten me VERY close to throwing in the towel. And I thought that although a few people might miss the entertainment, nobody would really give a damn one way or the other.

But to see how many people have been willing to dig into their pockets and help when things were looking kind of bleak, has been a real eye opener for me. When several advertisers in a row dropped out, I really thought the show was over with. I would have hated to think I wasted all my time and effort with this site, but I was fully prepared to accept that and let it go.

Again, thanks everyone............

[Glenn Bartley]

Rich,

I pay over $60 a month (maybe over $70 by now my wife takes care of the bils) and I think I spend almost as much time on your site as I do watching the premium channels I pay so much for! It was definitely worth a donation. My wife might not agree, but she does not have to know everything, and I am pretty sure she would think my time and money better spent here than on a porn site!!!!!

This site is well worth a donation now and again. Thanks again for the wonderful site.
Best regards,
Glenn

[Glenn Bartley]

Oh boy I am tired. What I meant to say was I pay a lot for cable TV, and this site is a lot better than most of the junk I pay so much for to the cable company - so why not help you out for all your hard work to give us something I and others truly enjoy. Keep up the great work!!!!!!!:)

[BrianB]

Rich,

Here's a link to use to deal with that spacing problem on the board:

http://beta.ezboard.com/fcooltipsntricksfrm9.showMessage?topicID=9.topic

Just do a cut and paste into the java app, then hit the button, then cut and paste the result back. These boards handle hard returns weird.

Hope that helps. I might be broke, but I can donate info. =)

Best,

Brian

[mycurlylocks]

Thanks for all the hard work. As anyone knows that read my posts for Rob@RK Reptiles, I am a single mom with a sick child. I came up with a donation and I sure hope more people do too.
Don't take what is free for granted, the freedom might be gone someday. My son and I both read the posts (except I won't let him read all the jokes) and I enjoy the site. I like having somewhere to check for honesty about who to deal with and help with problems.
Candy King

[Tony]

I put some reptiles up for sale all the proceeds are going to be donated to faunaclassifieds. They are posted in Monitors for Sale and Pythons for sale. I don't have much money to help out with right now, but I will try and raise as much as I can. This way you can help support this site and get a new reptile at the same time. This could make it easier on all of us. Thanks.

Tony Alles
www.reptileguru.com

[WebSlave]

Thank you all! The donations are still coming in and I am happy to say that it looks like I may be able to afford the DELUXE padded room when they finally put me away.
:nuts:

Seriously, it is REALLY appreciated!

[David Reid]

I will give 10% of each sale made on this site, up to $200 a year.

Dave Reid

[WebSlave]

Thanks!

Donations are welcome, to be sure, but they are NOT required to use this site. Right now I am spending past donations on upgrades (chat software, and programming help) to the site.

I have recently moved over to a bigger and faster server as well, so I hope you all feel I am putting the money to good use.

Thanks again.

[mycurlylocks]

Glad the donations are helping. Keep up the great work. We do appreciate it. Maybe if the money keeps coming in you can afford the de-lux beer to drink in the deluxe padded cell! :beer:

Candy King

[WebSlave]

I really need to apologize to everyone whom has donated recently! I have fallen woefully behind in keeping this list uptodate. So much so, that now it would be a MAJOR effort to find all of the people's names whom have donated and make this list accurate.

Time is really tight now, and I don't see that happening any time soon. So unless there are a lot of complaints, I am going to just have to say I am giving up trying to keep this uptodate. If you all would prefer that I just take down the list, rather than having it being displayed and not showing EVERYONE whom has donated, just say the word. I don't want this to be a bone of contention here.

Thank you all for helping out. It is REALLY appreciated!

[WebSlave]

I have decided to remove the list of donators to this site. Not only am I terribly behind in keeping it up to date (and there is little chance I will be able to do so), some people have requested that their names NOT be posted on the list.

So with the above in mind, I feel it is best to just remove the list, rather than have an incomplete one, where someone might feel slighted because of my failure to keep it updated.

In any event, I truly appreciate all of the people helping me out here with the donations. It has gone a long way to helping me pay for custom programming, support programming when needed, as well as being able to afford a quality server at a quality data center. It also allows me the opportunities to explore other avenues to offer you all even more bells and whistles as well as other upcoming sites that you may find of interest.

THANK YOU ALL!