• 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....

Down, but not out!

I'm so glad to see Fauna back up and running

I really missed my 2 am BOI reading and reading the various other forums

I have learned a lot on this site

You folks have helped me twice on the BOI and since then I always do a search before buying from anyone that is not well known to me

I sure hope that they find the person or persons responsible-
doing something like that is just so not cool

I believe in Karma-and they will get theirs

:yesnod:

Sandy
 
Bear in mind that the attack COULD escalate and shut us down temporarily again. If that happens I may resurrect HerpWantAds.com and post status there. If an all out attack takes place, I can always move this entire site to another domain name like HerpWantAds and then move it back when possible to do so. Make certain your email account is current in your registration record here, because that is how I would contact everyone to let them know the new domain name. I could do this with a dozen or more domain names, keeping all but one as read only just so the BOI would still be online at all times.

I've been through setbacks before......... :yesnod:
 
Awesome Rich, i was worried about us. :thumbsup: That suxs that someone has nothing better to do with their time. :ack2:

Oh, and the spell check has always been a little off, I have seen it miss words before.
 
Wow, things really are zipping right along now!!

Glad to see everything up and running again so quickly, I've seen it take a lot longer on other sites.

They should know that Fauna and the BOI simply ain't gonna go away that easily!
 
Suncoast Herpetological said:
Rich

Did anything ever get uncovered as to who the miserable son of a bitch that initiated the attack was?
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No. Never got a reply back from the FBI. I could have the source tracked down, but it would cost me in excess of $6,000 to do so. If the site were down hard, it would be worth it do to so, but at this point things seem to be under control.
 
Crappy thing about this sort is that often, the jerkwads will attack from a server where they have already hacked/phished their way into, so Fauna's logs won't be the only ones needed. If I can get into one server in China, get from there into another server in the Netherlands, and operate attacks from there, that's three sets of log files needed from people that may not have that information kept and probably don't even know that their equipment is being used by someone else.
 
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