• 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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    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....

Server reboot tonight (03/20/2011)...

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Although things have been running pretty smoothly (knock on wood), the server has now been running 163 days without a reboot, so I think I need to do that to clear away any dead wood accumulated in memory.

Not sure when it will be, but expect a short period of downtime when that happens. Quite likely sometime between midnight and 4 am EST.
 
Thank you for the warning, Pooh-bah!

I can't tell you how many forums I belong to that don't warn about updates and re-boots, but knocking on the door and getting the error message makes me NUTZ!
 
Well there won't be advance warnings all of the time. Sometimes I just see that the number of active participants is low, and just do a maintenance reboot on the spur of the moment. Or else there is some problem going on that doesn't exhibit itself here that needs a reboot of the entire server to straighten up.

Of course, there have been times I have done a reboot and the server didn't return from it till I contacted the server techs at the data center to do a hard reset of the server. So it's not without it's challenges...
 
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