• 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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    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....

Fauna Classifieds' Groovy Beginnings...

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Hey folks!

This is my first thread here on FC, even though I've been a member for a little while. But I just found this too funny...

So in the wake of the change to the BOI, I was just skimming back through it to the very end pages just to see what it was like when it first started out. Here is what I found:

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This website predates the Internet itself. XD

Anyways, have a nice day everyone!
 
That date is from a conversion compatibility failure from the original message board software that HerpWantAds.com was running on. HerpWantAds was actually the ancestor of FaunaClassifieds.

Notice that the member names failed in the database as well.

And before all that, HerpWantAds was running on a custom script written in Perl CGI script. Until the main guy running the marketing part of things collected all the money, stopped paying the bill for the internet connection going to the server that resided in the programmer's home. Which sent me scrambling for a server myself, and had to start over from scratch.

I believe this is the first thread posted on this site after I got the new server and the message board software running -> http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1

Yeah, fun times.
 
Ha, ha, yeah, I actually figured it had something to do with conversion. Thanks for the information on the scripting, and for the link to the first thread. I always did like browsing through time to the first site threads.

Also thank you to you and all the other mods for all the hard work with the site! You guys do a great job!
 
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