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This one will be short - no further updates from any of the publishers at this time.

Diane in Cincinnati
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  * * * * *  Remaining Shelters of Stone Book Winners  * * * * *

I know I'm late with the announcement!!  Congratulations to all 5 of you!  You will be 
receiving a first Edition hard cover, final copy of The Shelters of Stone from Pamela with 
Crown Publishers!

 --  Kammie, Board Sponsor
 --  Mamut, Board Member
 --  HistoryBuff, Board Sponsor
 --  sbrn0169, Earth's Children Forum Moderator
 --  gwenith, Board Sponsor


  * * * * *  Authors on the Web Contest  * * * * *

Thanks to Thalion for this tidbit:  Authors on the Web has a drawing (only applies to US 
residents residing in the 50 US States, unfortunately) for a copy of The Shelters of 
Stone.  See http://www.authorsontheweb.com/AOM-contest.asp for details.  Entry deadline is 
April 30, 2002.


  * * * * *  AuelBoard Users - I need your help!!  * * * * *

It turns out our server space which was advertised as including 'unlimited bandwidth' isn't 
actually unlimited...  It's $20/GB per month if we exceed 20GB of traffic in a month.  
Right now our monthly projected bandwidth usage is 21GB.  I've made some temporary changes 
to some of the newer AuelBoard features to help minimize usage thru the end of this month:

- Turned off Forum Search feature
- Turned off the Inline Frames at the bottom of Post Reply Pages
- Turned off the new Post Preview feature
- Changed the Default Forum Topic View from 60 Days to 20 Days

Default Forum TOpic View only applies to anyone who doesn't already have cookies set. If 
you could please lower the number of days on YOUR default setting, that would help!  Also, 
if your signature line is long, please try to reduce it, and use the quote feature 
sparingly - only quote the bare minimum necessary to make your point.  Those will all help.

Our average number of unique visitors to the board has changed in the past month (due to 
the pending release of Jean's 5th book) from 3,050 visitors a day to over 4,800 visitors a 
day.  Big change!!

I'm working on other solutions.  These are stop-gap solutions to keep us going, meantime.  
I do appreciate your help - and all the new sponsor donations coming in to help cover the 
additional costs.  You guys are wonderful!!


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