• 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....

Other members subsidizing paid memberships?

Sasheena said:
Rich, I can offer to test the software to see how smart it is, when I get the money for my fauna fund auction. :) (IF it closes satisfactorily)

Just a thought. :)
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Well, when I look at the paid subscription plan page, I see this comment at the bottom:
Validity periods marked * indicate that purchasing this subscription will extend your existing subscription of that type.
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That implies to me that the program is smart enough to know that you already have a subscription in place for one of more of the offered plans.

Heck, beats me. Maybe there already is a hack that will do this upgrade thing. I guess my programmer will know when I get around to asking him.
 
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