[Jill St Claire]

"More likely than not, June 1st will probably be the last date that homelandsecurityus.net is up. FYI
WHAT????????? WHY??????????"

MamaDearest...in the 97 days that my site has been up, I have had 1,260,504 hits. I am averaging more than 13,000 hits a day and steadily growing. Out of those million plus hits, I have received not one donation to help me offset costs...seriously. With the type of information that the site contains, it is not feasible, in my opinion, to seek potential advertisers, and I refuse to annoy people with popups.

At the rate that the site is growing, I am going to exceed my bandwidth limits, and quite frankly, am self employed in a slow season, and my budget can't be squeezed anymore than it is. So rather than beg for donations, I would rather shut it down and walk away knowing that I did all that I could do while I could.

[JustPiper]

We would always appreciate your work here ;)

[tmp02]

Jill,
We would hate to see you go. Just a couple of recommendations though...It does take a while to bring up your web page. I think that you have a java animation or script (special affect) that slows down you page significantly (make the page look like window shutters or a circling affect). This animation follows me to other pages as well and would cause significant pull on your resources. If you eliminate it, you may free up alot of resources and bandwidth on you system and your page will load faster. Just print pure text and forget about special affects. You will get alot better performance. Secondly, if you closing down your website, could you please, please, please be a regular on this thread, posting your finds here? I know I may sound selfish, but your skills are advantageous to possible attacks and preparation. Thanks again for all your hard work!

[MamaDearest]

Thank you for responding to my questions. We count on you for your superb gathering of information and putting it out there for us to digest. Not having it will leave a huge gap in our knowledge base.

Please don't leave us permanently. Your work is highly valued here by many of us. If anyone needed a guardian angel to help you finance your site, it is you. What you do is a national public service. I wish there was a philanthropist or two who would be willing to sponsor your site. In any event, you are an asset to us and we hope you continue to be part of us here at FR.

[knak]

Wow, I went to the link and read "the rest of the story". Scary! Thanks for posting it. I also would like to say how much your input is valued. Please stay.

I wish I had more time to read and post here. All I seem to be able to do is kinda sorta keep up with the reading!