Spring Pledge Drive

~MarciaH Thu, Dec 12, 2002 (19:21) #301

Not cool at all. It happened to my son. As soon as I get back to Hilo I will have the card replaced with a new one.

~MarciaH Fri, Mar 21, 2003 (00:21) #302

You should have heard from me via PayPal today, Terry.

~terry Sun, Mar 30, 2003 (11:34) #303

I did! Thank you so much!!!

~MarciaH Tue, Apr 1, 2003 (01:31) #304

Happy to be able to assist!

~terry Mon, Jul 7, 2003 (17:29) #305

To all of Spring's supporters. On Spring's main page there's a new item labeled " ads by google". If you click on these ads, it will help pay our bills.

~terry Mon, Jul 7, 2003 (17:38) #306

Goodle Ad Revenue partway through the first day was very good, although google does not allow me to discuss specific stats. But thanks for your support and please keep on clicking.

~MarciaH Fri, Jul 11, 2003 (17:11) #307

Thanks for the heads up. I'll go straigh away!

~terry Sat, Jul 12, 2003 (11:25) #308

We've been in a steady decline since day one. But I'm figuring out wayxs to boost traffic through the other websites, expecially http://adsenses.com which is also http://www.adsensible.com.

~MarciaH Mon, Jul 28, 2003 (11:48) #309

It seems to go through seasonal fluctuations - at least as far as Geo is concerned. Summer comes and everyone goes outdoors on vacations or picnics. When school and the fall season begins, they pick up again.

~terry Mon, Jul 28, 2003 (17:57) #310

That will be good.

~terry Mon, Jul 28, 2003 (18:25) #311

... when things pick up. That will be good. Because we're in a long dry spell now.

~MarciaH Tue, Jul 29, 2003 (14:08) #312

Over the several years I have been active here both in Drool and on the rest of Spring, summer is the worst time for hits. Hang in there. Things will pick up with the cooler wetter weather coming.

~wolf Mon, Aug 4, 2003 (23:24) #313

i owe a good old donation (maybe when my pay raise comes in at the end of the month)

~terry Sat, Aug 9, 2003 (23:12) #314

I need help picking which colored google ad is the most pleasing. Will you please help me out by visiting this page and clicking on the ad which has the color scheme that you find to be most pleasing? You would make my day and make me very, very happy if you would do this, please. http://www.spring.net/adsense Just click on the ad with the color scheme you find most pleasing and I'll announce the results based on my page stats. Thanks in advance for helping with this!

~lafn Sun, Aug 10, 2003 (10:01) #315

Go Raspberry Smoothie

~KarenR Sun, Aug 10, 2003 (10:38) #316

Put the Droolback3 background on your test page, Terry, then it would be easier to choose.

~terry Mon, Aug 11, 2003 (09:35) #317

I will do it. I'll put droolback3 as the background on the test page. Then folks can go to vote by clicking on the one they like best at http://www.spring.net/adsense I'll count the votes and let you know which one is most popular.

~terry Mon, Aug 11, 2003 (09:42) #318

Drooleurs: Please pick the color scheme you like the best on this page: http://www.spring.net/drool I put the drool background on this page.

~Shoshana Mon, Aug 11, 2003 (11:08) #319

Against the Drool background, I think fresh mint is most pleasing, though it does sort of seem to blend in and could seem to disappear. Melancholy blue and raspberry smoothie are also nice and stand out more.

~KarenR Mon, Aug 11, 2003 (11:14) #320

Good to have confirmation about "fresh mint" from another computer. I always worry that nonconforming colors. I vote for fresh mint as well.

~Shoshana Fri, Aug 15, 2003 (21:56) #321

Terry -- love the google ad for "springs." Was that a conscious choice or random? Very humorous!

~terry Sat, Aug 16, 2003 (10:48) #322

Shoshana, I have no say over which ad google places. On one site, I heard this story. Yep, they're still tweaking: The technology is not yet foolproof. The online edition of The New York Post, which is owned by the News Corporation, ran an article last month about a murder in which the victim's body parts were packed in a suitcase, and Google served up an ad for a luggage dealer. from the above NYT piece

~Beedee Sat, Aug 16, 2003 (12:16) #323

(Terry)and Google served up an ad for a luggage dealer. Shoshana, I had the same question! Very funny Terry.

~wolf Thu, Sep 11, 2003 (20:28) #324

i have finally seen the light (colors, that is) and i like cut grass the best! though raspberry smoothie comes in a tight second.

~MarciaH Thu, Oct 23, 2003 (20:13) #325

This makes me hungry!

~terry Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (14:29) #326

http://www.austen.com/board/index.cgi?read=45813 The above url is my appeal to Ann Haker and to the supporters of http://austen.com to contribute to the pledge drive. I know there's some overlap in the two groups, but I'm not sure how much. It's a mystery to me even.

~terry Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (15:18) #327

And with ten minutes of posting this there was a contribution! Contribute via paypal, credit card or snailmail at http://spring.net I'm going to work up a contribute page also.

~wolf Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (15:48) #328

terry-i made a donation about a month ago and wanted to make sure you received it. pls let me know!

~KarenR Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (16:29) #329

Appeals to the austen.com only need to be on austen.com. Now, don't spend that $10 (or should I say that $9 and change, after fees) too quickly.

~terry Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (18:20) #330

OK, I put the appeal in the Derbyshire Writer's Guild message board. http://austen.com/board/index.cgi?read=45813

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (09:25) #331

~KarenR Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (09:28) #332

Terry, as I've told you before, posting messages to donors here is useless.

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (11:27) #333

That's fine. I'll send the donor a card via snailmail.

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (21:59) #334

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (22:04) #335

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (22:51) #336

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (22:54) #337

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:02) #338

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:13) #339

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:14) #340

Thank you!

~KarenR Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:30) #341

Terry, please make your funding requests elsewhere, not on Drool. We've had our fund-raising drive.

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:31) #342

Please don't censor me like this.

~terry Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:33) #343

I made a genuine appeal and this topi is read across a dozen or more conferenes. Your censorship demeans the spirit and sincereity of my appeals.

~KarenR Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:36) #344

Then delink this topic from Drool, so that other areas of Spring will read it.

~terry Sat, Nov 1, 2003 (14:45) #345

Dreams of new frontiers of communication and some video specials . . .

~mikeg Mon, Nov 3, 2003 (12:03) #346

What's the deal with this Backtalk stuff? It's pretty cool!

~terry Mon, Nov 3, 2003 (13:26) #347

It is cool. It gives you your own interface. You an leearn more at http://spring.net/backtalk

~mikeg Mon, Nov 10, 2003 (07:37) #348

I like it...

~terry Tue, May 18, 2004 (13:19) #349

https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=bank%40spring.net&item_name=Donation&item_number=1001&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=USD ... is our new donation url. Donations are now made to bank@spring.net We're still trying to complete our offsite backup server. We're also working on repairs to our onsite backup server. We don't need a lot, a little bit would help at this stage!

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 4, 2005 (15:33) #350

Terry there should be something in your account from me. Sorry it took so long. I'll be more regular from now on. As always, many thanks for providing this forum. I'd have been in a sorry state without it.

~wolf Tue, Oct 4, 2005 (22:35) #351

oh yeah, terry, i'm not trusting paypal right now because i got another one of those phishing emails.....i'll just have to mail my donation!

~terry Wed, Oct 5, 2005 (00:53) #352

That's fine. Mail it to spring.net 182 clover rd cedar creek tx 78612 make checks out to spring.net Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~MarciaH Wed, Oct 5, 2005 (16:17) #353

Paypal is not the ones doing the phishing using their name. It is irritating and I have reported each one as spam. I have used Paypal here and on eBay with complete success so far. I'll let you know if any further phishing expeditions occur. I blocked the spam generators yet the reap paypal receipts came thru so you know there is something else at work here.

~wolf Wed, Oct 5, 2005 (19:53) #354

actually, paypal phishing emails look exactly like paypal correspondence except that words are misspelled (if you accept anything that says @paypal.com then the phishing will get through your blockers). the link in the email brings you to an official looking site too. i did confirm with the REAL paypal that it was phishing and not a registered email address of theirs.

~MarciaH Thu, Oct 6, 2005 (17:31) #355

Mine were from someone else. So far I've been spared the phishing. Thanks for thehead's up. They are more stupid that I thought they were !!