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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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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.

How many MULTI computer families do we have here ?

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with 4 ( 2 adults and 2 daughters ) more than average computer comprehensive knowledge residents at my place, we have 3. I'm the dummy though on the comprehensive part. Oh boy, I thank whomever for the router invention so all computers can be linked. How many of you all that have multiple computers hooked up has their Internet providers or DSL, phone line, satellite companies want to charge EXTRA for more than one computer hook up ? My DSL provider tried to get me to pay an extra $10 a month for my other 2 lines. I said no ! And that all of my phones, long distant service, regular phone service, and the $39 monthly billing of their DSL was enough gouging ! They have not pressed the issue anymore.
 
We're a multi computer family. We have five here. One Mac, one linux and three windows. Not all of them are hooked up to the net though. One of them needs to be shot, but it's still great for playing the older games!
We use a router and wireless cards also. Now the only problem comes when everyone wants to download quickly!
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Seems like our house is the hang out place and someone is always on at least one of the computers!
I think everyone wants to charge more for each computer. Unfortunately some poor soles don' t understand about the routers and pay it. I am on DSL, paying for 1.5, wish I could afford more speed, but it's way too expensive!
 
Multi computer

We are a multi computer family. We have two up and running and connected to dsl. Everyone fights for the faster of the two. The "grown kids" stop to see the computers, not us or there younger siblings LOL
Ginger Ambrose
 
well we dont have an entire family it's just me and my husband but we have a total of five computers here.... 2 lap tops and three desktops... i hold on to my old desktop which died because it holds allot of info i want but can not seem to acess. we are on dial up so each one of us has our own line...
 
7 PCs here. 5 Windows machines and 2 Linux.
 
Just my wife and myself here. We're running 5 pcs on a wireless network with DSL.
 
3 computers of mine, 1 computer of my fiance's that i built and gve her and a modded xbox running linux :) With a wired/wireless network on a 4 mbit cable line. Roadrunner here is great, i have been with them since they were at 1 mbit and have not wanted to go with anyone else since.
 
We have 5

We have 5 one for each of us. All networked and wireless.
 
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