If you would like to contribute to help defray the cost of running the site, please click on the "Make A Donation" button above. It will bring you to a PayPal page where you enter the amount you'd like to donate and a place for you to enter your PayPal account login. If you do not have a PayPal account, you can start one by clicking on the button and following the instructions.

If you'd like to donate via regular, old-fashioned mail, please PM RedSoxAnni or MargoAdamsLoveChild.

We hope to add other methods of making donations soon, but for now, this is it.

To become a Rooters Supporter and have access to a special members-only forum and first crack at things such as t-shirts and outing tickets, the minimum donation is $15 per year. Oh, and your name at the bottom of the main page turns red! Woo hoo!

Thanks.

-MALC


Another request: If you make a donation using PayPal, or if you send us a check, PLEASE include your username. You can include your username next to your name on the PayPal "form". If you use a different email address when you access PayPal than you used when you registered on the board, your email address will not be in our database. And if you did not fill in the "name" window when you registered, I can't search for you by name either. For a lot of posters, the only information in our database is your username and email address that you gave us when you registered... So, please help by including your username with your donation. Thanks. Anni

An added note:

When you send in your donation, make sure to include your USERNAME in the notes.

If you use a different email with PayPal than you used when you registered for this board, we cannot figure out who you are.

I've sent emails to two people who did not include their usernames, and whose emails don't match our databases, and have not heard from them yet.

If you sent in a contribution, and have not been upgraded to supporter yet, please send me a PM and I will track you down.

Anni

You can register at Paypal.com and use it to pay for the donation. It will ask you to register a credit card with them, I think. You can register a bank account with them if you like, too. It is a service that most people that use Ebay use. If you register a bank account with them, it takes a few days to get activated. Paypal will make two deposits of like $.01, and $.02 into your bank account. You then have to tell them how much they deposited into your bank account in order to verify it is your account. I know it sounds confusing, but that is how it is done. It is safe, though. I use it to get payment from people when I sell things on Ebay, and it is generally how I pay for things, also.

It doesn't allow you to put in notes... You might have to do some emailing.

Thanks for the tip, PW. I will look into it.

Actually, if you donate, just post here or PM me. That way I'll know who it is.

I've been looking people up in the database by e-mail.

-MALC

Donation sent! I love to read this site, keep the bandwidth alive and lets win another WC! GO Red Sox & RSN.net!

looks like you got the comment fixed...

donated to my favorite Sox site

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Buying this will also help the site...

Sweet Jesus, can you get that huge graphic off of the top of every page on the site? It's ugly, it's intrusive, and it's EVERYWHERE. Please let's not start whoring out this site with obnoxiously-placed ad links.

Wondering when I get my name in red and get special access to the forbidden room. I made my donation almost 3 weeks ago.

I'll be updating everyone in the next day or so. Between the WS and the changes we made on the board, a few things fell by the wayside. If you made a donation, and your name isn't in red by the weekend, send me a PM.

Anni

I just gave a donation. I guess this will renew my being a rooters supporter for another year. What was the final decision on the Amazon link?

The Amazon link will return when we get the account set up.

Anni

I added this comment to the first post in the thread, but I'll add it here as well...

PLEASE include your username with your donation. If you don't, it may take me a while to "find" you in the database, and you may end up getting an email from me asking who you are.

If you use a different email address with PayPal than you used when you registered for the board, I will not be able to find you.

Anni

Looks like the subscription link isn't working. It goes nowhere when i choose the paypal link. If i pay for a subscription, will that keep me from being locked out when the bandwidth spikes again?

Not necessarily, ManRamEm. If you're getting the "server busy" message, no one (including barstaff) is immune. Sometimes (rarely) we'll lock the board to members only, which you're OK on already.

As far as the link, what exactly is not working? Is it the "donate" button in the thread that is pinned at the top of the On The Field forum? Or the thing under "Purchase Paid Subscriptions" in your MY CONTROLS?

EDIT: I just checked it out. PayPal link in the pinned thread works great. But when I use the "Purchase Paid Subscriptions" option in MY CONTROLS, I can choose "PayPal" as my payment option but then when I choose the radial button and try to click "continue" it's not doing anything. The solution to this is to just click on the big "donate" gif next to the radial button. It then moves the transaction forward.

Ahh, i see. It kept saying yesterday that due to a spike caused by Pedro the board was shut down to most. Anyhoo, everything works fine until i check the paypal link thru My Controls and try to go from there. Nothing happens.

Ironically, my wife was buying a whole lot of books for Christmas gifts yesterday. As an enthusiastic new member, I clicked on redsoxnation.net and discovered that, except for the potential opportunity to contribute to you via Amazon.com, I was barred from the site.

I may contribute in the future, but I won't do it soon. The timing of everything was unfortunate, but it's difficult to defend contributions to a site that essentially closes when things get exciting.

The site closes when things get exciting because if we didn't close it to some, it wouldn't work for ANYBODY.

Let alone the other sites I have on my server.

Here is the progression of events yesterday (and what I always do when it gets slammed)

1. Guests are barred
2. New Members are barred
3. Regular non-paying members are barred.


It has rarely gotten past #1. Yesterday, I had to enact step 2. If you get the 'too busy' message, EVERYBODY is getting that one.

PSF,

I'm impressed by the speed of your response. Thank you!

The priority hierarchy makes sense. Too bad that you didn't have it on the message that we received.

I understand that I was an exception. I didn't know anything about the Pedro news. I was just showing my wife an opportunity to help a good site instead of making a nominal contribution to UPromise, and the site didn't work at the moment of demonstration. The scene was moderately embarassing.

Best of luck raising money. This is a quality site. It's not worth the domestic turmoil to make a nominal contribution at this point, but I'll keep you in mind.

Sincerely,
Bill

Bill, thanks for thinking of us, anyway. For what it's worth, I was blocked out too and couldn't get in.

I think you'll find that other Sox sites attempt to be far less inclusive when their servers get slammed. It's unfortunate, but happens from time to time.

-MALC

The dirty deed is done!

My deed is done as well. Just out of curiousity, how long does it take to get the name in red and once that happens, we can change our classification (Short Season Lowell, A Capital City, etc.), right?

In order to get your name in red, you must become a supporter of the board.

Anni

Did that the other day and got a prompt thanks from MALC. It's quite a worthy cause.

That one got by me! I just found it and took care of your upgrade.

Anni

Does being a supporter also entitle one to change their group status to a name of their choosing (instead of A Capital City, AAA Pawtucket, etc.)? If so, how do you change that? If not, is it only post count that lets one change it?

Also, why did MALC send me 250 pictures of me, taken with a telephoto lens from the lampost by my bedroom window (without my knowledge or consent) with a note that "We are meant to be together" after I made the contribution?


EDIT: Lie inserted at end of post.

Can I get those framed RSNDiaspora?

You have to make it to 1,000 posts, then you have complete control over your tagline. So start cracking those knuckles and get ready to type.

OoOoO.. I think I got lucky.. I only have 500something posts.. and I can change my title.

You're right. I double-checked and 500 posts it is!

I just donated 15 dollars because this is a wonderful site, keep up the good work

Ray Ray ... Thanks for the donation. We very much appreciate it. It allows us to lease a more expensive company car in 2005.

go with the beamer, nothing but the best for rsn

Sorry for the delay in supporting...Ive been a member for a while, an occasional poster and a frequent reader....keep up the great work.

Mike D

my $15 was donated tonight!!!

Glad to hook it up, just wish I had done it sooner.

Thanks guys.

Just renewed. Keep up the good work everyone.

Will someone let us know when it is time to renew?

I will get to the renewals soon. I need to get through the entire membership list first.

One problem is that I do not have all the records. Kevin forwarded some of them to me, but not all of them. After I've checked all the membership records, I need to reconstruct the Supporters list. And keep my day job!

We'll get to you!

Anni

Thank you Anni. No hurry on this end.

I've been through about 4,000 of the 5,000 records so far. I've culled over 1,000 members who hadn't logged on in over six months. Once I get through the rest of them, then I'll be able to semi-automate the membership list. It'll tell me who needs to renew, and who hasn't logged on in six months.

You'd be surprised at the number of "members" we had who registered and never logged on after that. We also had members who hadn't logged on since Dec. 2003.

Anni

When you say culled does this mean their logons have been deleted? I would hope so.

Yeah...they are GONE. If they want to be members, they have to register again.

When I am finished, I'm going to post a message about deleted members in the general forum.

Our focus on this will pay off in the long run. Plus it means our Supporters who signed up early in 2004 will get a couple extra months of Supporterdom without having to re-up, which is our present to you for being so loyal. And for us, as Anni said, it's tough to get to everything simultaneously because we have those day job things. (Actually, I have a night job and I'm at work now. But you know what I'm sayin'.)

Just sent my donation tonight. I want to thank you for a wonderful site with polite and wise fans who are always helpful




Yea now I am red

Just sent in my donation - better late than never. I love the site! THANKS for all the hard work that goes into it.

Thanks ... er ... uh ... how do you pronounce your screen name?

What happened to Nuf Ced? The first member of this grand website? He hasnt logged on since November...?

I found this site through a link on SoSH from his username, but now his signature says not affiliated.

Not the same person. BTW, Happy Birthday Nuf.

edit:the less ced the better.

The SoSH Nuf Ced rightfully distanced himself from the other Nuf Ced--different guys.

The Nuf Ced formerly of redsoxnation.net was given a post-partum abortion. He will be missed by...none.

Hey MALC,

I finally sold enough body fluids to help support the site through 2006 (e.g. $30). Why RSNet and not the bajillion + 1 sites I visit/post?

1. through RSNet, I've been able to score WS + SB DVDs
2. joined 2 way cool fantasy baseball leagues (and gearing up for Rooters football)
3. Cambridge's interviews/articles
4. following the horsehide heroes of Beantown
5. Moderator's rapid response to requests for site improvement

RSNet has provided Looies with the mirth, humor, wit, and insight that has been missing from his dull, simple life ever since Looies erroneously let his Reader's Digest subscription lapse. Keep yer Sawx on