Greg,
Mark the list administrator sent the following. There is a paypal option
in addition to a few others for donation.
Stan
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>
>April 11th, 2002. For most everyone on the planet a typical thursday. If
any
>of you have ever done a domain search on team.net, you may have seen
something
>along the lines of
>
> Record last updated on blah-blah-blah
> Record expires on blah-blah-blah
> Record Created on 11-Apr-1991.
>
>Yep, April 11th, 1991. Eleven years ago the Team.Net domain hit the ether.
>Both the british-cars and the autox list existed in various forms for a few
>years before this, but I happen to like the April 11th date. And who will
>soon forget another 11th, that dark day seven months ago? Seven come eleven.
>
>Seven come eleven - a phrase I've heard before in relation to throwing dice.
>I'm not a gambler, so I can't say what the phrase really means. Of course
>one could argue that just about everything we do, even if we just cower under
>the covers all day, is a gamble of some sort or another.
>
>Seven, eleven, just numbers - numbers that designate some of my favorite
>Lotus cars, and if you throw in a '4' for April, you can make 1147, the
>displacement of the early Spitfires, like the one I drove to Tinker Day last
>saturday. Gee, 4 plus 7 is 11. One could prattle on for some time about
>numbers, that is not my intention.
>
>What I'm after is continued funding of the autox.team.net services. Old
>hands on the lists may have been expecting this message for a while, folks
>who've just joined probably have no idea who I am or what I'm going on about.
>Basically, the roughly 100 lists served here under various domains are run
>from a motley collection of various computer bits I've gathered over the
>years, some scrounged from my job at the University of Utah, some purchased
>with funds from previous funding drives. I'm the man behind the curtain.
>Anyone remember my 'rats in the coffee' post?
>
>And the pile of hardware is hooked to a DSL line in my basement, sending out
>automotive related information around the globe. Network connectivity
>pulls roughly $75 per month out of my wallet. Not an outrageous amount, but
>it does add up. So twice a year, spring and fall, I solicit funds from
>subscribers to the lists to cover the monthly charges and possibly get some
>new hardware or another box of backup tapes or something.
>
>This year, the 'something' could be fairly significant. As many of you have
>noticed the archiving which had been taking place at Listquest no longer is
>an option, they've gone belly.up it appears. If you point your web browser
>to http://www.team.net/archive you may see that some of the lists have some
>of the postings available in a browseable, searchable form. All lists using
>Mailman for list management ( http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo ) have
>archives in place, though they aren't yet searchable.
>
>What I'd like to do is get ALL the posts from ALL the lists on line and
>available. Doing so will require more disk space and more processing power.
>I did get a clean, one owner, slightly used machine from a Triumph and
>autocross fan who's been with the lists since the earth's crust cooled.
>Trouble is, the box didn't have any CPUs in it. A Supermicro SGXP6DEG dual
>CPU motherboard, nice redundant power supplies, 70 gigs of disk under a RAID
>controller, but no CPUs and only 128 megs of RAM. So the plan for this
>spring is to get some CPU chips and more memory in the box, and try to bring
>it on line as the archive and web server. Or maybe the archive, web and mail
>server, we shall see. All I need is a pair of 500 - 700 MHz SECC (Slot 1?
>I'm not that up on Intel platform hardware) CPU boards, some more memory
>and some time to get it all set up.
>
>Which is where you come in. If you feel the benefit of being a subscriber to
>one of the roughly 100 lists I manage is of value to you, and you happen to
>have some dollars burning a hole in your pocket, consider donating them to
>the cause. If you happen to be an American citizen who just sent off a nice
>fat check to Uncle Sam, don't worry about sending in a contribution. If you
>just signed up and don't yet have an idea of what you are getting into, don't
>worry. If you think that the policies and procedures I've put in place
>governing list behavior must be the work of the devil himself, or you gave
>last time, or you still don't have an idea of who I am and what I do for the
>lists don't worry. If you don't have any spare funds at the moment, or live
>outside the US of A, or whatever, don't worry.
>
>But if you do feel that what you are getting through this pile of old
computer
>stuff stashed in a Salt Lake City basement is actually worthwhile, consider
>making a contribution to the fund drive. There are several ways to do so.
>
>
>Send a check for $4 or $7 or $11.47 or $77.11 or whatever amount of US
Dollars
>you feel comfortable with, made out to Fat Chance Garage, to the address
>
>Fat Chance Garage
>PO Box 58333
>Salt Lake City, UT 84158
>
>==
>
>Send a note with Visa or Mastercard info to the above address as well.
>
>==
>
>FAX Visa or Mastercard info to me at 801-355-5438
>
>==
>
>Contribute via PayPal [ http://www.paypal.com ] using the address
>donations@autox.team.net
>
>==
>
At 09:11 AM 4/18/02 -0400, Greg Hare wrote:
>I want to contribute, since without the list my 1600 would have died a
>miserable death like my 1500 did back in '88
>
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