• 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....

Hello Again

Glenn Bartley

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I have not been active all that much on the site in a while. Used to be a member, then dropped out of the site, then came back as a contributing member, then got was diagnosed with stage 4 throat & lymph node cancer in summer 2012 and dropped off the face of the earth during treatments. Treatments were a battle from September 11 to November 11 and a slow and very tough recovery lasted through about January or February 2012. After that things improved markedly; still not 100%, maybe never will be again but it’s better than the alternative.

I may have joined again as a contributing member last year but sure cannot remember; the treatments were as bad as the disease so to speak and affected the little gray cells memory capacity a bit. I am better now, getting more active with herps again and looking forward to spending more time on these forums. Since I could not tell, from my user profile, if I was paid up or not, I decided I must not be up to date and contributed again, tonight.

So, here I am again. Nice to be back. Hope all the rest of you have been well while I was absent.

All the best,
Glenn B
 
Glad you pulled through OK, Glenn. Sounds like you went through Hell...
 
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