We hope you will enjoy our site. If you are an AOL user, making use of AOL's Web browser, you may benefit from reading the information below. If you are not using AOL, you should simply click "RETURN TO MAIN PAGE," below, or click your browser's "BACK" button.

We have found that AOL's browser has a feature that probably seemed like a good idea at the time: if the browser sees you are visiting a page you have been to before, it saves time by pulling the page out of its memory rather than downloading it again from the same site. It does this without bothering to determine whether the page has changed! As a result, AOL users visiting a site whose content has changed often don't get the new version of the site: they are seeing the old version on their computer screen, unaware that anything is wrong. (All browsers do this to some extent, but AOL's browser is the most stubborn about this.) Our site will have new content added from time to time, and if you are using AOL's browser you may never find the new material.

For best results, we recommend that you avoid using AOL's browser and use another instead. If you are on a Windows PC, it almost certainly came with Internet Explorer. You can minimize your AOL window and open up Internet Explorer, and type our address (http://www.necrobabes.org/cardnthan) into the Address line. It appears Explorer only saves the pictures, not the text, and has no trouble spotting changes in Web pages you have visited before. You might try this for other Web sites you like -- who knows what you may have missed.

If you would really rather use AOL's browser, there is something you should do whenever you go to our site: when you come to our main page, or Text Stories page, or What's New page, or any other page that may perhaps have changed since the last time you visited our site, hold down the Control key (Ctrl) and, while holding it, press the F5 button, in that row of buttons (F1, F2, and so on) across the top of your keyboard which you may perhaps never before have used in your life. AOL's browser understands this pair of keystrokes to mean, "Ignore what you are finding in my computer's memory from the last time you went to this page, get what's on the site NOW." (Do this for EACH PAGE you go to, after arriving at the page. The page will refresh, and don't be surprised if there's something new on it.) This should work on a Windows PC. I do not know whether this works on a Mac. Perhaps someone can tell me.

Of course, you can try that on any Web page. We are not the only Web site AOL causes trouble for. Or so we believe. We try not to give in to paranoia.

We hope you are able to enjoy new content on our site as it appears, despite the efforts of AOL to make things "better" for you. Please let us know if you have any problems.