• 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....

Requests for phone calls.

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Lately I've had several people request that I call them on the phone, or else want my phone number to call me.

Sorry, but no, I don't discuss issues on this site via the phone. Most issues are likely volatile enough that I want the conversation to be in WRITING anyway, and not via phone conversations where there is no record of what was actually discussed.

If someone calls me, please don't be surprised if I hang up the phone on you once I determine what it is about. Some people I would not want to talk to under ANY circumstances, especially just to hear them whining about what is being said about them on the BOI. Honestly, I can't do anything about it anyway, as once it's posted there, it is THERE, regardless of anything you have even a remote chance of convincing me of anyway. Even if I believe you, I will not delete such posts or threads.

So for the record, please contact me via email or private message. Or if you want to send me a letter via snail mail with a $100 bill attached to it, well, then you probably will get higher on the priority list. :D
 
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