A letter from Mikey and Don

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Anything large or small is welcome.  When I first joined The-Gauge.com it had just been created.
That was December 1999.  It took nowhere near the annual amount that we spend now to stay online and safe.

Don & I compliment each other, in that, we double check every cost, service discount and future expenses.
We are completely at the mercy of what the companies want to charge, to cover their annual expenses.

In actuality, we have the basic services that any small internet company would have, only because we are as susceptible to the same hackers and virus spreaders as those other companies.
We try and are mostly successful in keeping spammers at bay.  Our Moderators are always on the lookout as are most of the members, and of course, Don, P.J., and I.

But like any small business, we need to continuously monitor the software site and P.J. has to install updates as needed to keep us online and safe.
Most of the time we stop in and look through the new posts for bad ones, even though we may not post every day. As Don said: We accept No Money for this and this includes our Moderators. We all gladly volunteer our time!

So we have years and if not Decades of experience that we just plain old enjoy using.  
Our only compensation is sharing information back and forth with all our members!!