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2003-04-22

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-22 12:44 pm|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred -- I sent you some money. Great service you've provided for us. (Now if you could only fix the diplay width issue...)

Posted by someone 2003-04-22 13:36:03|| 2003-04-22 13:36:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Fred,
You might be interested in this,

As a civil servant still in active government service, I am forbidden by law to operate an account outside the shores of ~~Nigeria~~ Britain. Hence this message to you seeking your assistance so as to enable me to present your private/company account details as a beneficiary of contractual claims alongside that of the ~~Bulgarian~~ ~~Iraqi~~ French contractor, to enable me transfer the difference of US$600,000,000.00 (Six Hundred Million,United States Dollars) into your provided account.....
Sincerely,
George Galloway

Posted by Dick Saucer 2003-04-22 13:56:50|| 2003-04-22 13:56:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks for the donation - it's much appreciated!

I'd fix the page-width thing if I could make my browser do it. Mine (IE6) looks normal, and my Opera and Netscape browsers are on my home box.

I fixed the input box on the Guest Poster form to take up to 254 characters, though, so we shouldn't have that kind of problem with URLs again.

Posted by Fred 2003-04-22 13:59:46|| 2003-04-22 13:59:46|| Front Page Top

#4 I've reset the width on comments to a fixed width, which'll make it look awful on anything but the screen resolution I'm using. Did that fix the problem?

Posted by Fred 2003-04-22 14:37:38|| 2003-04-22 14:37:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Pretty good - I'm at 800X600 and it looks like it's set one reso higher. I'll pony up some cash as well, and this time it won't have Sammy's mug on it

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-22 14:47:56|| 2003-04-22 14:47:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred, how much bandwidth did this take up?

Posted by Ptah 2003-04-22 15:14:02|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-04-22 15:14:02|| Front Page Top

#7 48010 MB. I've got 10000 MB in my plan.

Maybe I shouldn't have included all those pictures...

Posted by Fred 2003-04-22 15:34:40|| 2003-04-22 15:34:40|| Front Page Top

#8 What are your storage requirements? Verio has unlimited bandwidth with 400MB space for $149/mo. There are others like Future Quest that have 450MB storage and 20GB bandwidth for $55/mo, if you expect traffic to subside with the war wrapping up. I'm not affiliated with either company, but just perusing hosts to get an idea what's the norm.

Posted by Dar 2003-04-22 15:58:01|| 2003-04-22 15:58:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Happy to contribute to the cause; I'll whack Paypal tonight from home. Where else can I be so snarky to such an understanding bunch? My wife certainly doesn't let me get away with any of this around the house.

Posted by Steve White 2003-04-22 16:19:57|| 2003-04-22 16:19:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Fred -- Great site. I've hit the button.

Posted by Matt 2003-04-22 16:57:13|| 2003-04-22 16:57:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Re the formatting, it looks okay in IE and Opera, but Netscape ignores the width setting and runs it into a single unbroken line. I'm going to reset it to a proportional width again and just hope tomorrow comes soon...

Posted by Fred 2003-04-22 17:44:55|| 2003-04-22 17:44:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe I better stop hitting the 'Refresh' button 100 times per second from now on....

Posted by Chris Smith 2003-04-22 17:54:16|| 2003-04-22 17:54:16|| Front Page Top

#13 fred i gave you some right now, thankyou for providing this fantastic site

and i am a tightarse I never give money to anyone, but you are my golden exception, you are my goldenboy Fred!

Posted by anon1 2003-04-22 19:11:31|| 2003-04-22 19:11:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Fred, come to Canada, www.eol.ca based in Toronto has transfers of 100,000MB for $300CAD and 0.39CAD for each additional 100MB. Keep in mind these are Canadian dollars. I'm not sure about the storage though.
I'll contribute shortly, but since $1CAD = $0.000000001US it won't be worth much.

Posted by RW 2003-04-22 20:31:40|| 2003-04-22 20:31:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Rantburg is my favorite site on the web! I'm chipping in!

Posted by Tom 2003-04-22 21:14:36|| 2003-04-22 21:14:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Don't have paypal,but will help if I canshoot me an e-mail,with snailmail address.

Posted by raptor 2003-04-23 07:00:52|| 2003-04-23 07:00:52|| Front Page Top

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