, please call me about this and
I'll give you to development url. And I'll email it to you.
I'm going to go by a few of the Churches out in Cedar Creek and see about finding
some folks who might be interested in the place. It's a great place and it's wired
to the net and all.
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Response 94 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (02:53) * 1 lines
good luck!
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Response 95 of 236: Renate Maria Maier (Renata) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (07:28) * 7 lines
Just to make sure that I don't spread a wrong link, which I have posted on drool #119:
http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click/mid1291956?siteid=5325183&bfpage=home
Marcia, Karen, Heide, Terry, wer, whoever is involved in the Visto-thing: I have copied the above link from the one you deposited so secretly on http://www.firth.com/ , so I assume they will realise that anybody coming in through the above one is from Spring???!!
PS: Whoever dropped that Visto logo and link on the firth.com entry page: I know that all of us are very short of time, but I would appreciate much if you'd at least drop me a note the next time you change something *in* my Afirthionado files? Thank you.
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Response 96 of 236: Renate Maria Maier (Renata) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (07:49) * 0 lines
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Response 97 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (14:06) * 0 lines
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Response 98 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (15:36) * 0 lines
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Response 99 of 236: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (17:50) * 1 lines
well, what about allowing the hosts of the conferences to post the links on their conference main pages?
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Response 100 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (22:37) * 4 lines
go, baby, go!
you got the smarts and technology!!!
and when have I told you you couldn't
do something, Wolf?
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Response 101 of 236: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (22:45) * 1 lines
why, never, wer, never *blush*
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Response 102 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul 3, 1999 (22:51) * 4 lines
so why you asking now?
I finally signed for visto, too...
now to have the time to see if it is gonna be useful!!!
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Response 103 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jul 4, 1999 (11:25) * 9 lines
Yep, we've made $14.00 on the 7 signups so far.
And I just looked in to a couple of dozen more affiliate programs. I've
gonig to be busy today evaluating these programs and figuring out where we
can put them. I can see we're going to need both a special
affiliates/sponsors page on tvnight.org and on a dedicated website as
well. I'll start a topic for affiliates in the projects conference so you
can get some links from there.
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Response 104 of 236: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Jul 4, 1999 (12:40) * 1 lines
kewl!
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Response 105 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul 5, 1999 (01:03) * 1 lines
!!!
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Response 106 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (07:44) * 0 lines
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Response 107 of 236: Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (10:16) * 0 lines
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Response 108 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 6, 1999 (20:49) * 0 lines
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Response 109 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jul 7, 1999 (16:00) * 4 lines
Thanks, it's pretty easy to click through to visto's site and sign up,
it's a 10 minute gig and it's pretty painless. And it might even be
highly beneficial!
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Response 110 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 7, 1999 (16:32) * 1 lines
Renate did a nice "ad" for Visto in Drool. I hope they were paying attention. Else, they will hear from me in mass emailings... I can be most persistent when the cause is right, and you, Terry dear, are most worthy!
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Response 111 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (11:22) * 8 lines
Thank you! I sent an email to Anne haker (anneh@spring.net) to see if she
would put a banner on austen.com. The stats for this site are off the
charts, it's rapidly catching up with spring.net. The stats alone for
hits on that site fill up a major share of our hard drive to the point
where I'm goin t to have the replace the two 4 gb hard drives with much
larger ones. Maybe a pair of 12 gb hard drives. austen.com is a huge
success, huge! So I hope she'll let us do a banner there or at least a
link.
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Response 112 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (14:29) * 1 lines
Is Drool losing its preeminence on your boards and in your heart?! I am all astonishment (an Austenism); we shall have to rise to the occasion.
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Response 113 of 236: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (16:35) * 7 lines
Ca-ching.... I have signed up with Vista, Terry, through the link on the spring.net page.
OK by me to put a banner link on the Drool main conference page and at the bottom of each topic page, with the amazon link for balance of course. ;-) Esthetics always.
(Marcia) They seem to need to be entertained there, so they left me in charge. Silly people!
tsk tsk
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Response 114 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (17:26) * 1 lines
Karen, 113 is dormant, sleeping, non-responsive, moribund and not very active, either...How often you get down this way? I'll have to be a whole lot nicer if I am to live up to my Drool reputation - whatever that might be...!
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Response 115 of 236: Evelyn Boake (lafn) * Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (17:45) * 2 lines
Hi Marcia....what are you doing here?
Babysitting the Pledge Drive?
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Response 116 of 236: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (18:58) * 2 lines
actually she's adding wisdom and insight...
and plenty of good vibrations!
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Response 117 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (19:19) * 0 lines
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Response 118 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (19:24) * 0 lines
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Response 119 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (00:38) * 0 lines
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Response 120 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (00:44) * 1 lines
and a hearty "Thank you, Evelyn!!!"
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Response 121 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (10:25) * 2 lines
Have you signed up your goldfish for Visto yet?
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Response 122 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (11:13) * 1 lines
nope, they all died...
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Response 123 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (12:07) * 2 lines
Your pet snail then.
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Response 124 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (12:46) * 2 lines
they don't get online much, what with all the garlic
butter and such...
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Response 125 of 236: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (14:00) * 1 lines
Perhaps they'd love the epicurious site...
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Response 126 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (14:12) * 1 lines
who wouldn't?
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Response 127 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (17:50) * 1 lines
I just signed up for Visto under my alternate ISP and used my formerly wedded name. I don't quite know how you will arrange it when you try to enroll your guppies, but think of your relatives - even if they do not know! (How closely do they check to see if that phone number and zip code match, BTW?)
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Response 128 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Jul 10, 1999 (17:09) * 0 lines
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Response 129 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jul 18, 1999 (19:37) * 0 lines
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Response 130 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul 18, 1999 (23:21) * 1 lines
ah, something is finally working!!!
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Response 131 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Jul 18, 1999 (23:57) * 1 lines
Am I ever happy to hear that. I was about to sign up people who do not know I can because I know all about them!!! Great news, Terry! And, thanks, wer, for putting them everywhere!
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Response 132 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (09:10) * 11 lines
The Spring made over $100 this weekend on Visto clickthroughs, and we
havne't even introduced the idea of Visto groups yet. When folks hear
about this they'll want to use Visto for their families and groups. It's
really a good thing so I feel good about using these banners to support
us. I'll keep building the affiliates page for folks who want to shop
there and use these click throughs and, wer, feel free to copy appropraite
banners to strategic areas around the Spring (eg. barnesand noble.com to
books). But Visto is really turning out to be a winner for us.
I hope this trend continues, if it does, it could mean the end to
financial woes.
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Response 133 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (12:13) * 1 lines
Amen, Terry. It is about time you were free of financial worries. Just keep us posted if any reverses occur and I shall rattle cages once again on your behalf. Now, kick back and enjoy - you can't imagine how delighted I am to find your postings everywhere! Now, if we could only interest you in Colin Firth...(Not!)
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Response 134 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (11:34) * 9 lines
The click throughs are back to about 1 or 2 per day now, I wonder what
happened that pushed us through the roof for those three days? I notice
wer put Visto banners in a bunch of conferences. Let's figure out how to
pump it up again.
I'll copy the banners to http://tvnight.org/shop from
http://tvnight.org/affiliates and keep adding to this page so it can be
a little shoppping mall area for software, books, videos, travel bookings,
etc.
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Response 135 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (14:18) * 3 lines
and we need to coordinate better, because I already
had a GoTo affiliation, not to mention Amazon and
American Spice...
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Response 136 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (16:13) * 5 lines
Visto's the only one that ever brought revenue in.
Speaking of which, I got a $20,000 offer for a domain name today (not
spring.net, austen.com or firth.com so don't worry). Don't know if this
is too low or not.
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Response 137 of 236: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (16:17) * 1 lines
well, in my view, it is more than nothing...
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Response 138 of 236: Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (20:13) * 1 lines
really! (was it mine?)
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Response 139 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 20, 1999 (20:29) * 0 lines
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Response 140 of 236: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (09:38) * 1 lines
yep... go for the cash-ola
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Response 141 of 236: Renate Maria Maier (Renata) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (13:35) * 1 lines
Take the cash and "buy" some more promising domains :-).
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Response 142 of 236: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (15:20) * 12 lines
like Paulterry.com
or .net
or .org
or... tofueater.com
or .net
or .org
or veggiepastelover.com
etc
etc
etc
or coolandedgy.com
Hmmm... this is fun!
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Response 143 of 236: Renate Maria Maier (Renata) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (16:26) * 1 lines
Take the cash and "buy" some more promising domains :-).
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Response 144 of 236: Renate Maria Maier (Renata) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (16:31) * 7 lines
Ooops. Hit reload.....
What about
www.summer.net
www.winter.net
www.fall.net
:-)
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Response 145 of 236: Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Jul 21, 1999 (20:42) * 3 lines
interesting renate!
take the dough, terry :)
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Response 146 of 236: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (10:52) * 1 lines
(i LIKED tofueater.com)
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Response 147 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jul 22, 1999 (13:14) * 1 lines
(So did I, Stace, but Terry is probably saving that one for special occasions.)
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Response 148 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (23:59) * 13 lines
Terry, I posted this notice in Drool, Food, SpringArk, and Porch and Screwed
then sent it through Springfolks message board. Could you give me some figures to throw at them for the next round of pleading?! This place and its people are very special to me!
If you value Spring and the discussions herein (not to mention the
venting going on), do you realize this is Terry's web site for which he pays all the bills? Please, it is time to help with any
donation you can afford. He has some pretty big bills to pay and he needs your (and my) help to sustain all of the stuff we
are posting. Think if he had to cut back and eliminate some of - or all of - the conferences?! Please!
Send contributions to:
Paul Terry Walhus
The Spring
9011 Quail Creek Dr
Austin, TX 78758
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Response 149 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (18:47) * 11 lines
Figures:
1288 quarterly colocation fee charged by ddc.net
602 quarterly SW Bell bandwidth fee
125 purchase of 9 gb hard drive to ease disk space shortage
??? upgrading of machines for y2k (1800-2000 approx)
300 Yapp licensing fee for the quarter
So that's about $4k to get us through till the end of the year.
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Response 150 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (19:06) * 1 lines
Thanks, Terry. I posted in Poetry hoping to stave off the departure of posters and the increase of donations. I had no idea it would be taken that way...!
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Response 151 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (08:47) * 9 lines
Our stats, for anyone interested, are at
http://tvnight.org/stats/stats.cgi
Visto is supposed to pay quarterly, but we haven't seen our first check
yet. We may be stepping up our shopping areas and going after more
clickthrough revenue.
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Response 152 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (14:28) * 1 lines
Terry, that's a great resource. Thanks for posting the URL. Shall I put it in Drool 100 or did you do so already?
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Response 153 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (16:37) * 9 lines
Go ahead and put it wherever, folks like to see stats.
If you've got telnet access, try this at an ok: prompt sometime:
!tail -f /var/www/logs/spring.net/access.log
You'd be amazed how much traffic have every minute.
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Response 154 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (22:06) * 1 lines
Ok, I'll put them around where the curious might look and I do indeed have telnet access - two places (through haleakala.aloha.net and tvnight.org) and I shall remember that prompt to see what activity there is. Thanks!
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Response 155 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (22:16) * 3 lines
I entered it at the OK prompt and it keeps telling me it cannot execute it
!tail-f /var/www/logs/spring.net/access.log Something wrong with my spacing or the wrong dash before the f?
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Response 156 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (09:17) * 9 lines
Ooops,
There's a space in between tail and -f
!tail -f /var/www/logs/spring.net/access.log
will do it.
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Response 157 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (16:47) * 1 lines
thanks again! (posted that comment above in telnet and do not know how it got posted twice...!)
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Response 158 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 4, 1999 (16:50) * 1 lines
Looking back at your original post, I note that you put the space in originally - the Oops was mine!
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Response 159 of 236: (sprin5) * Fri, Apr 21, 2000 (19:31) * 12 lines
Please help me to recover some of these bandwidth costs for austen.com!
I'm out a total of $1,021.26 since 1/21/2000 on extra bandwidth costs and sure could use some help right now.
Please mail contributions to
Paul Terry Walhus
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Thanks!!!!!
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Response 160 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 21, 2000 (19:42) * 1 lines
I just emailed the people who need to know (May I be of help? Call me if so, but that is more than I can handle...)
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Response 161 of 236: (sprin5) * Fri, Apr 21, 2000 (22:17) * 1 lines
Of course it is more than one person can handle, that's why we need to crank up the old pledge drive again, it's always worked before. Folks usually respond.
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Response 162 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (00:57) * 5 lines
I sent this to the list, but I put lots of nice and loud notices about it on the Austen.com site.
I think it might help that I can be specific for people about what exactly is needed. I posted the info (without what looked like credit card numbers), so people know what is owed.
I suppose some of that was due to our chat room. Since that is gone, I hope the expenses drop off some.
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Response 163 of 236: (sprin5) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (09:29) * 1 lines
It should, and if you need a chat room, I can work on a plan for that on another server. But for some reason, austen.com is using huge amounts of bandwidth. This isn't a bad thing, it's good, it means the site is healthy and a lot of information is getting transferred. I just need some help from the community with these extra bandwidth costs.
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Response 164 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (09:49) * 5 lines
We're working on finding an off-site chat room, right now it looks like we may settle in at ATT's chatroom service. Chat rooms use a lot of bandwith, so my guess is that the death of our room should cut back on your costs.
If you had it on another server, you'd have to pay for that, right? I think keeping it at a free site would be good (if I can find one everyone on my site can get into, which isn't easy). That way someone else picks up the tab :)
Do you want me to post B&N ads on Austen.com, and encourage people to buy their books there?
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Response 165 of 236: (sprin5) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (16:15) * 6 lines
Well, today I ordered 1.5 gib bandwith DSL at my Quail Creek house, and I could put one of the old UNIX servers back online from the days when we colocated. I think this would do the job, and we would have total control over the setup. In fact, I could dedicate an entire machine to this.
Speaking of bandwidth on austen.com:
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Response 166 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (17:08) * 1 lines
Pretty amazing! What's it gonna cost you to put the old UNIX server back online? What is the new 1.5 gb bandwidth gonna cost? Something is terribly wrong if you are supporting something in which you do not even participate. What happened to the good old American way?! (Sorry, but I am getting testy about this on your behalf)
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Response 167 of 236: (sprin5) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (17:14) * 3 lines
It's gonna cost $299 per month for 13 machines with dedicated ip addresses, I think I'll set it up as ns1.wholetech.com and ns2.wholetech.com. I'll get 3 or 4 of the roomies there to chip in $30 apiece a month for their own ip addresses and that will cut it down to around $200 or less.
But it will let us run an Internet buiness out of that house. I've got 2900 square feet of space in Cedar Creek I'd like to use for the same purpose, running servers, but the problem is no DSL, only isdn in the area. So the Quail house is going to be it for now. Maybe we could run satellite bandwidth to Cedar Creek?
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Response 168 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (17:44) * 3 lines
Sounds fascinating...and it is time you got your ISP back online. I was so sad the day you were forced to take it offline.
The $200 is over and above the cost of running your websites...You surely are not setting yourself up as a philanthropic organization...?!
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Response 169 of 236: (sprin5) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (17:45) * 1 lines
No I'd like to make enough so I didn't have to do other things to support this venture. I'd like to devote a lot more time to webpage creations and community building.
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Response 170 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Apr 22, 2000 (18:10) * 1 lines
Super! We'd all like that, methinks! I cannot think of many other things which would give me more joy than more Terry on the Spring (bring that big guy with you, too, please!)
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Response 171 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Sun, Apr 23, 2000 (00:10) * 10 lines
First, I'm very happy to run fundraisers on Austen.com to support our part of the Spring, and I know a lot of my people are happy to donate--but I need to know when the money is needed, and I'd like to know how much is needed on a monthly basis to support Austen? It seems that the only time I hear about money problems is when there is a crisis. If I don't know it's needed or how much is needed, it's hard to know to run a fund-raiser.
If I can get info to my people on the costs of the site, I think they will understand the kind of money is required in donations and ante up. (Unfortunately I have quite a large group of teenagers, who just don't have money to donate, but the adults are fully willing, and I think they can do enough.) I'm also willing to look at the Austen site to see where bandwidth can be reduced, but don't really know how that whole things works, and could use some general explanations of it.
Second, I'd like clear info on affiliates which could be used by the Austen folks to help raise money. What affiliates are all out there, should I put up B&N links, for example? How much could be collected this way?
Thirdly, if you do set up those new computers, how much would that cost? Would switching over some of the biggest bandwidth-hogging parts of the Austen site to those machines save money? or would it mearly shift the same cost somewhere else?
Info is good! More info!
Money is good! More money!
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Response 172 of 236: (sprin5) * Sun, Apr 23, 2000 (02:27) * 7 lines
Good questions, Ann. I'll have to get with the DSL folks to find out if they charge for excessive bandwidth. I'm curious about this. If they don't charge for bandwidth, then I'd say that would be the way to go for the bandwidth intensive aspects of austen.com.
The best place to get info on affiliates is reporting.net, you can see the range there. Visto is potentially far and away the best affiliate, and they offer a great service.
I'll have to figure out why it is that austen.com uses so much bandwidth. It's not necessarily good to reduce it if it means large transfers of useful information are going on. I'll look at the logs in more depth to see which areas of the site are getting the most intense traffic. Maybe that will reveal the answer.
It's surprising that austen.com has so dramatically surged ahead of spring.net in bandwidth, with all the streaming video and audio we do on spring.net. But somehow it's happened. And in many ways it's due to the great job of site building y'all have done, Ann. It's a sign of success and growth.
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Response 173 of 236: (sprin5) * Sun, Apr 23, 2000 (02:51) * 3 lines
I'll try and get a good answer to the when the money is needed question. Perhaps we should do a fund raiser at the start of every quarter. January, April, July and October would be good times. Start at the first of each of these months and try to raise enough to cover bandwidth and any ohter costs. Just a suggestions, you could establish a membership/patron system like I'm working on for spring.net (see the button on the main page).
Where do you see austen.com going, Ann? And what would you like to see in the future as far as new features on the site? How do you see austen.com fitting in to the universe of other austen.com sites, do you see it as the portal site? Or do you see it more as a place for literary expression?
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Response 174 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Sun, Apr 23, 2000 (20:45) * 5 lines
If the volume of traffic from Austen.com end up being overbearing on Spring, there are ways I can reduce it without ruining the site. Most of the traffic is on the bulliten boards, but I can move those off-site to a free service, such as Inside The Web. I'd like to avoid that if possible, because they have ugly flashing ads at the top, and I'd have less control over the structure of the pages. But I looked at the Analog output and the number of hits the different boards get is over 55% of the Austen.com traffic. So, if necessary, Austen.com could go on a diet.
I noticed the usage spike, and was quite surprised by it, especially when it seems to correspond to the death of our chat room (which occured around 3/13/00). I would have thought that would have caused a drop off.
As for Austen.com. I don't know where I want it to go. Right now it is a bifurcated site. The front half has lots of JA links, and I'm slowly putting her six novels up as well. The back, and interactive, half us mostly dedicated to creative writing and archiving the stories people post (over 650 of them!) I'd like to have more Austen-related info, but there is no reason to duplicate the stuff that Pemberley has, and that covers a lot of ground. Right now my goal is to get annotated version of the novels up on line. I'm working on the third of these right now.
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Response 175 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr 23, 2000 (21:02) * 1 lines
Wow, Ann, that is certainly impressive regarding your annotated Jane Austen. And, you have a real life besides. I am all amazement *smile*
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Response 176 of 236: (sprin5) * Mon, Apr 24, 2000 (07:11) * 1 lines
I'd rather figure out ways to support the site rather than inhibit it's growth in any way. I'm looking foward to these annotated novels, that's outstanding. It wouldn't seem like the bbs would use that much bandwidth.
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Response 177 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 24, 2000 (12:56) * 1 lines
I certainly agree. Especially if it is not done at the expense of other places of value on the Spring.
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Response 178 of 236: (sprin5) * Mon, Apr 24, 2000 (17:35) * 1 lines
Pretty soon, in 30 days to be exact, I'll have some homegrown servers that can take up some of the slack. And also there may be other deals out there on bandwidth. Excessive bandwidth is a good thing, it means we're going, we just have to be more creative about supporting it with ads, donations, and click throughts and get more commerce sites in gear.
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Response 179 of 236: on the porch (sprin5) * Mon, May 1, 2000 (08:44) * 3 lines
Friday was a record day for contributions toward our austen.com bandwidth bill, I received 5 contributions totaling $215, one for $100. *Huge* thanks and hugs for all those who sent the checks and the beautiful cards and notes.
It really, really helps out. Thanks!
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Response 180 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 1, 2000 (13:42) * 1 lines
How far are you from total coverage of the amount?
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Response 181 of 236: on the porch (sprin5) * Mon, May 1, 2000 (14:25) * 1 lines
We're about 27% there.
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Response 182 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 1, 2000 (15:22) * 1 lines
Writing check and putting it in the morning mail....
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Response 183 of 236: on the porch (sprin5) * Mon, May 1, 2000 (19:12) * 3 lines
We're over half there now! Actually close to 70%!!!!
Today was awesome. Much, much, much thanks, especially for the $500 donation!
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Response 184 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 1, 2000 (20:33) * 1 lines
Yee Haw! Whoopee! and my check is in the mail....
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Response 185 of 236: on the porch (sprin5) * Tue, May 2, 2000 (00:36) * 1 lines
I can't thank everyone enough for the best day ever in the history of Spring for the kind contributions and the wonderful thoughts that came along with them. My sincere, heartfelt thanks to everyone. I was going to put the names on a pledge page, but the overwhelming sentiment is to keep it anonymous, so I respect that. You know who you are, and I'm so grateful to you!
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Response 186 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 2, 2000 (13:32) * 1 lines
*Big Hugs, Terry! Thank you Springizens all!
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Response 187 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 2, 2000 (13:33) * 1 lines
Terry, I was asked in email if your address had changed. Before it was a box number at Cedar Creek.
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Response 188 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Tue, May 2, 2000 (16:19) * 1 lines
Was that $500 one from an Austen.com person?
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Response 189 of 236: Amy (amy) * Mon, May 8, 2000 (05:34) * 1 lines
CEO of Visto will be in live chat tonight at AT&T WorldNet. http://attworldnet.ehosts.net/celeb/celeb.html
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Response 190 of 236: on the porch (sprin5) * Mon, May 8, 2000 (16:26) * 1 lines
Cool, any idea what time?
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Response 191 of 236: (sprin5) * Wed, Nov 1, 2000 (08:42) * 4 lines
Who will be a hero today and help out with the $35 we need to renew the austen.com website? Call me at 512.699.4000 or email terry@spring.net if you are willing to help pay this. It has to be paid by credit card at http://www.networksolutions.com (click on "make payments" and specify austen.com).
I'm very broke today, waiting for a payday and rent checks to come in!
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Response 192 of 236: (sprin5) * Wed, Nov 1, 2000 (08:45) * 132 lines
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Response 193 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Wed, Nov 1, 2000 (09:12) * 3 lines
No problem, Terry. Me and my folks will take care of it.
Which raises the question...can we actually get it registered in our name instead of yours? I know I mentioned buying the domain from you before. I was wondering what you might want for it?
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Response 194 of 236: (sprin5) * Wed, Nov 1, 2000 (12:33) * 1 lines
We'll discuss offline!
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Response 195 of 236: Karen (KarenR) * Wed, Dec 13, 2000 (10:06) * 9 lines
Have you checked out the click-thru links to make donations?
First, it says on the screen that terry@spring.net does NOT accept payments from non-US payers. What?! Why are you not taking advantage of the International capabilities of PayPal? This is what is needed, especially for austen.com, which has a huge worldwide following?
Didn't you sign up for a "business" account?
Second, why does the screen have an "amount" shown ($25) and a quantity? Why isn't it donate what you want and what you can? This is nonsensical to most people.
Please check out your links and setup from the main Spring page, as well as the one Ann has posted at austen.com
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Response 196 of 236: (sprin5) * Wed, Dec 13, 2000 (11:13) * 5 lines
Good advice Karen, I'll follow up on all of this. I did sign up for the business account, and I'll try and figure out the International stuff (any hints?).
Bandwidth for austen.com was enormous this month. I just got the monthly report. It was about $583 something, but there are about 14 pending PayPal signups wiating verification and I got 4 $25 donations in the last few days. I've been sending out color 8x10 photos to donors and am looking at more items to send out in appreciation.
I'll check out those links!
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Response 197 of 236: (sprin5) * Wed, Dec 13, 2000 (13:27) * 3 lines
austen.com 10,595,157
... from bandwidth report (this is megabytes of bandwidth for November)
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Response 198 of 236: (sprin5) * Wed, Dec 13, 2000 (14:39) * 1 lines
I upgraded to a "business" account from a "premium" PayPal account so I should be able to accept International payments. The proof will be in the first time one of our overseas folks tries this. I have no way of testing it.
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Response 199 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Dec 13, 2000 (15:03) * 1 lines
Um, anyway I can get one of those pictures. My donation was to Karen and not small... please??!!!
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Response 200 of 236: (sprin5) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (08:24) * 1 lines
Absolutely, email me your mailing address as a reminder!
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Response 201 of 236: (sprin5) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (13:15) * 4 lines
About 12 people have signed up for PayPal via our link but haven't validated yet. If you want to validate (and get the $5.00 deposited in your account) you need to check your bank statement online or by phone and find out the two amounts that PayPal deposited in your account.
Once you find these two amounts, you need to log in to your PayPal account and enter these amounts in the appropriate boxes.
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Response 202 of 236: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (13:21) * 1 lines
Terry, why does it say that you don't accept International? Isn't that a major objective here?
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Response 203 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (14:44) * 8 lines
Just send you my street address. Thanks!
Want to see a mind-blowing pix?
http://tvnight.org/yapp-bin/restricted/read/Geo/42.29
for a little less serious one
http://tvnight.org/yapp-bin/restricted/read/Geo/42.28
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Response 204 of 236: (sprin5) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (14:47) * 1 lines
I signed up for a Business Account, so I should be able to accept International Payments, it still says that? I'll work some more with PayPal and call them if necessary to straighten this out.
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Response 205 of 236: (sprin5) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (15:03) * 33 lines
According to my account information, as a Business Account, I should be able to accept payments in these countries:
PayPal is now available in the following countries:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
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Response 206 of 236: (sprin5) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (15:15) * 1 lines
And I did send an email query to PayPal. Have any International users been able to use this? Has anyone from these countries been rejected?.
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Response 207 of 236: (sprin5) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (15:27) * 26 lines
*PayPal Users* have to use a special url to sign up!
People from 26 countries around the world can now send and receive money
online using PayPal. PayPal is already the #1 online payments service in
the US -- over 4 million users have signed up since we launched our service
one year ago. And now users from all over the globe will be able to take
advantage of the world's fastest, easiest, and safest way to move money.
It's simple to sign up
[https://secure.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_international-register] for
an international PayPal account. Just complete a brief registration form,
confirm your email address, and add a credit or debit card to fund your
payments. Registration is completely free, and all transactions are
conducted in US dollars. PayPal is faster than mailing a cashier's check,
and much cheaper than sending an expensive money wire.
Also, all PayPal users in the US have automatically had their accounts
upgraded to be 100% compatible with international members.
Residents in the following countries are now eligible for PayPal accounts:
Australia * Austria * Belgium * Brazil * Canada * Denmark * France *
Germany * Hong Kong * Ireland * Israel * Italy * Japan * Mexico
Netherlands * New Zealand * Norway * Portugal * Singapore * South Africa *
South Korea * Spain * Sweden * Switzerland * United Kingdom
Topic 41 of 100 [porch]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 208 of 236: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Dec 14, 2000 (16:08) * 3 lines
But when you click on the "Donate" buttons on Spring's main page, it says: terry@spring.net DOES NOT accept international payments.
That will throw people off.
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Response 209 of 236: (sprin5) * Fri, Dec 15, 2000 (07:54) * 1 lines
That will! I'll look in to a fix for this.
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Response 210 of 236: (sprin5) * Mon, Dec 18, 2000 (16:16) * 4 lines
I sent out some more pictures this morning to donors. But I can't send out some because the folks who made PayPal contributions didn't have their address in the notes in the payment they made. So if you've made a contribution, now or at any time in the past, and would like a photo sent to you, please email me and I would be happy to send you one!
Thanks to everyone for helping out!
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Response 211 of 236: (sprin5) * Mon, Dec 18, 2000 (16:18) * 19 lines
. . . and I have a couple of emails in to PayPal about the foreboding
message that the Spring doesn't accept International payments. This is the one I got today:
Message 2/9 From PayPal International
Dec 17, 0 02:58:45 am -0800
Dear Mr. Walhus,
Thank you for contacting PayPal.
You may receive or send both international and domestic payments. All
funds are transferred in US dollars.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.
Sincerely,
Jennifer
PayPal Customer Service
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Response 212 of 236: Karen (KarenR) * Mon, Dec 18, 2000 (16:48) * 7 lines
It doesn't matter what you post here, as people who want to contribute do not necessarily read this topic. When you click on a DONATE button on Spring's main page, you get this screen that says "Spring does not accept payments from non-U.S. users."
Here is the screen from the click through.
https://secure.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr
Have you asked PayPal why it says this? That would deter people.
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Response 213 of 236: (sprin5) * Tue, Dec 19, 2000 (06:06) * 28 lines
I have this question in to PayPal, it's in response to the email from Jennifer at PayPal Customer service. I think I may know the answer but it involves modifying the code in the link that PayPal generates. If I get time, I may experiment with this today.
There may be a clue here:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/hlp/help_global_intl-outside
There are a lot of PayPal pending accounts that folks will need to verify
if the Spring is to receive the $5.00 sign up bonus, as well as the person
signing up. The key is to look at your bank statement and see the two
amounts PayPal deposits in your account, then go to their verification
screen and key these amounts in.
I'm working on covering the bandwidth bill for austen.com primarily and
charges connected with running a network connection to the sites.
PayPal may be a bit complicated for some, I can see why. But it's worth
the effort to figure out in that it may provide a secure intermediary to
make Internet Payments.
If you haven't received a card from me by Christmas, please let me know.
There are some folks whose addresses I don't have who I would like to send
cards and/or photos to. My apologies to those who may not get cards, I'm
working on putting together a complete list of those who make up our
austen, firth, and spring communities. Email me with your address or
others addresses that you may know of please. mailto://terry@spring.net
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Response 214 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Dec 26, 2000 (22:30) * 1 lines
Thank for the pictures, Terry, but where were you, dear?
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Response 215 of 236: (sprin5) * Wed, Dec 27, 2000 (04:02) * 3 lines
I was behind the camera!
That was my son walking in the woods, in the one.
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Response 216 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Mon, Apr 2, 2001 (17:00) * 7 lines
Has the international PayPal donation question been answered? I am about to do an Austen.com fundraiser and I noticed that the PayPal buttons on the Spring.net front page still contain the code "no_intl", which suggests that this still is up in the air.
But when you click through to PayPal, part of the message says:
International account holders: In order to complete this purchase, you must first complete activation of your account. Please complete registration and activation of your account at www.paypal.com before paying this merchant.
That is a bit of a confusing item. Does "registration and activation" mean just filling out the credit card and password info that appears on that page? Or does it mean something else? I found the International Registration page. Is the one that pulls up when you click through the PayPal button the same thing--or is that just for US folks? Do my overseas folks have to find their way to the Intl Registration page?
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Response 217 of 236: on the porch (sprin5) * Mon, Apr 2, 2001 (17:25) * 1 lines
Good questions, I'll revisit this and check out the PayPal topic. Is anyone overseas willing to take part in a test and try and make a donation?
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Response 218 of 236: LisaJH (LisaJH) * Mon, Apr 2, 2001 (19:37) * 1 lines
I am involved with an international trade association (which is based in the US), and to date, we have been unable to receive payments via PayPal outside of the US.
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Response 219 of 236: on the porch (sprin5) * Tue, Apr 3, 2001 (14:18) * 1 lines
Mmm, sounds like you've done some homework on this Lisa. Any suggestions on how we could go about this, Lisa?
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Response 220 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Wed, Apr 4, 2001 (22:55) * 1 lines
Anyone figure this out yet?
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Response 221 of 236: on the porch (sprin5) * Thu, Apr 5, 2001 (10:00) * 1 lines
Still working on it, Ann. I may have to call Paypal today.
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Response 222 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, May 2, 2001 (05:48) * 1 lines
The Pledge Drive is open! We had a huge hit last month, over $1,000 in bandwidth expenses mostly due to the Bridget traffic, so keep those cards and checks coming in, and click on the PayPal donate button in the upper left corner of http://tvnight.org please!
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Response 223 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 11, 2001 (02:18) * 1 lines
Our goal is to bring in $1,000 in contributions to pay for our huge bandwidth and other bills from last month (which total more than this actually). So far we're 23.5% of the way there with $235 in donations in the last week. One was for $100! Thanks and keep 'em coming! They help keep us going and growing.
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Response 224 of 236: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, May 11, 2001 (10:18) * 3 lines
Terry!!
I'm getting permission denied to FTP into my directories. More Front Page nonsense??? Isn't there some way to exclude my subdirectory from all your Front Page rules and regs?
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Response 225 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, May 11, 2001 (10:50) * 1 lines
Karen, I cannot ftp either. I emailed him earlier in the week about it. Arrrgh!
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Response 226 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 11, 2001 (14:37) * 1 lines
More effects of Frontpage, I just got off the phone with Karen and I believe we have the permissions reset. I'm just getting back from the movies and dinner in town so I've been out of pocket. I'll check Marci's permissions now!
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Response 227 of 236: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, May 12, 2001 (07:51) * 1 lines
Thanks ! I get to see baseball tonight... if I can stand to go with troll.
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Response 228 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Sat, May 12, 2001 (10:38) * 7 lines
Terry, I still am in limbo with Austen.com.
I'd love to go ahead and move the site over--since it is very confusing for my people to be stranded between two sites and 2 IP addresses, never knowing which site "Austen.com" will land them in--but I still can't set up my CGI boards. Right now only 2 of my directories are processing the CGI, the rest treat a script like plain text and print it out on the screen. I'm heading into my 3rd week of confusion over on Austen, and I'd like to get it all worked out. (And this afternoon the 208.171.121.122 digihost site is either really slow or not responding at all when I try to pull up pages.)
BTW, why is it that some days "Austen.com" sends me to the new site, then on others it sends me to the old? It seems pretty random and swings back and forth. It makes it really hard on me and my e-mail too, because I can only access my Ann@Austen.com e-mail when it is routing to digihost; it gets blocked when it routes to datapipe. That is my primary e-mail and I can't help wondering how many messages are going astray. Yesterday I could get my e-mail, the day before I couldn't, and I can't today either. I go days without getting it, then get it for a day, then lose it again.
Also, I sent you over $400 in checks today from my people. I think that brings the Austen fundraising total--not counting credit card payments--to about $625.
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Response 229 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, May 14, 2001 (09:12) * 1 lines
That's terrific, tonight I'll work with you and Barry on getting CGI going. Wecan keep the site where it is for now, but eventually we'll have to move it.
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Response 230 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Mon, May 14, 2001 (09:46) * 1 lines
Terry, it's too confusing where it is. My people are going nuts. I have posts diappearing. I have people be routed randomly to the new or to the old site--and since the two sites do not have identical content at the moment, that means it appears as if things are disappearing and reappearing. I need to get this settled down.
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Response 231 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, May 14, 2001 (10:43) * 1 lines
OK. I'll set up the dns to run under ns1.spring.net and ns2.spring.net so we can point it where we want. It can point to the new site or the old site but not both. You will still be able to reference both sites by ip number. This will get things settled down. I'll make this dns change now!
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Response 232 of 236: Ann (Ann) * Mon, May 14, 2001 (11:40) * 1 lines
What I need most Terry is the ability to run CGI scripts on the new computers. Currently I can only do so in the board and writers directories. I need to be able to do so also in the derby, novel, and people directories at least--would like to have control of that myself, if I could.
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Response 233 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, May 14, 2001 (14:54) * 1 lines
I'm going to get with Barry on this as he has a better understanding of it and just went through this exercise on repeater.org, another of our web pages on this server. bdunlap@austin.rr.com, please email him these details and I'll follow up and work with him.
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Response 234 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, May 15, 2001 (02:36) * 15 lines
Ann, as you heard from Barry, the following directories have the .htaccess file in them:
/
/babble
/board
/derby
/novel
/people
/writers
/boardarc
/giberish
This allows the use of .cgi files and should clear up your board problem.
You can inspect the contents of these files and examine the permissions settings if you need .htaccess in any other directories.
Topic 41 of 100 [porch]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 235 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 1, 2001 (13:44) * 73 lines
Starting today, we're going to have four quarterly fund raising
drives to
pay our isp bills, make improvements, do backups and expand and add
new
features (faster server with bigger hard drives, etc). The pledge
drives
will be held on
October 1-15, 2001
January 1-15, 2002
April 1-15, 2002
July 1-15, 2002
The goal of the current pledge drive is to pay all or a good portion
of
the $900 per quarter hosting fees we pay, plus another $600 to
initiate a
schedule of full backups to our server and an emergency preparedness
plan.
This quarter 25% of all donations will go to the newly established
college
fund for children of the survivors of the World Trade Center attack.
Send your checks to:
The Spring
182 Clover Road
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Use these logos to sign up (if you aren't a Paypal member and to make
donations):
target="_blank">
ALT="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"
width="468" height="60">
If you want to send your donations to Ann or Karen directly, and have
them
forward them to me, that's fine. Ann has handled this extremely well
in
the past and that way I can track which site they're earmarked for.
This
pledge drive includes Spring, Drool, Firth and Austen.
Thanks! Your contributions have been generous in the past and have
kept
this place rolling along. We hope to be secure, safe and more robust
in
the future as a website where you can freely express your thoughts
and
feelings and honor your heroes.
Topic 41 of 100 [porch]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 236 of 236: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Oct 13, 2001 (22:33) * 20 lines
I got the first donation of this drive today, $50, which is one sixth
of
the way to paying this months hosting charges of $296.00. That's a
start! I'd like to see the load spread out among more folks, and not
weighing so heavily on myself and a few others.
I'm encouraged by today's Paypal contribution.
If you would like to give, please click the Paypal button to "donate"
at
http://tvnight.org. Or send check payable to The Spring to:
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
I sent a $12.50 check to the college fund for WTC survivors today, a
fourth of the contribution I received.
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