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Matt Dralle
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Joined: 08 Nov 2005
Posts: 26321
Location: Livermore CA USA

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:47 am Post subject: What's My Contribution Used For?

Dear Listers,



Some have asked, "What's my Contribution used for?" and that's a good question.  Here are just a few examples of what your direct List support enables.  It provides for the very expensive, commercial-grade T1 Internet connection used on the List insuring maximum performance and minimal contention when accessing List services.  It pays for the regular system hardware and software upgrades enabling the highest performance possible for services such as the Archive Search Engine, List Browser, and Forums.  It pays for 19+ years worth of online archive data available for instant random search and access.  And, it offsets the many hours spent writing, developing, and maintaining the custom applications that power this List Service such as the List Browse, Search Engine, Forums, Wiki and PhotoShare.  



But most importantly, your List Contribution enables a forum where you and your peers can communicate freely in an environment that is free from moderation, censorship, advertising, commercialism, SPAM, and computer viruses.  How many places on the Internet can you make all those statements these days?



It is YOUR CONTRIBUTION that directly enables these many aspects of these valuable List services.  Please support it today with your List Contribution.  Its one of the best investments you can make in your Sport... 



List Contribution Web Site:



	http://www.matronics.com/contribution



Thank you for your support!



Matt Dralle

Email List Administrator

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longg(at)pjm.com
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:35 am Post subject: What's My Contribution Used For?

Dumb question,



Why not get rid of the expensive 20 year old T1 technology and get high

speed cable for $100.00 /month? Are you married to the vendor? Storage

is cheap. I recently bought a Terabyte of storage for $130.00 that I can

carry in my hand. I can also store it off-site for a lot less money

because I don't need to crate tapes and other space consuming items

around. It's not like your serving up streaming video, this is just text

and a few pictures. Further, do you really have a requirement to provide

the public domain with guaranteed backups? Who is going to sue you if

you lose a year or two?



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nuckolls.bob(at)cox.net
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:57 am Post subject: What's My Contribution Used For?

At 10:31 AM 11/17/2008 -0500, you wrote:

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Dumb question,



Why not get rid of the expensive 20 year old T1 technology and get high

speed cable for $100.00 /month? Are you married to the vendor? Storage

is cheap. I recently bought a Terabyte of storage for $130.00 that I can

carry in my hand. I can also store it off-site for a lot less money

because I don't need to crate tapes and other space consuming items

around. It's not like your serving up streaming video, this is just text

and a few pictures. Further, do you really have a requirement to provide

the public domain with guaranteed backups? Who is going to sue you if

you lose a year or two?


	


     This isn't about hardware and connectivity, it's about $time$

     and the willingness of folks with extra-ordinary abilities

     and resources to support an activity that otherwise would

     not exist.



     How many folks have Matt's $time$, skills, resources and

     enthusiasm for this activity? If it were cheap/easy, everybody

     would be doing it.  Given that $time$ is the rudimentary

     commodity of exchange amongst free-market participants,

     how many $hours$ were not wasted because the short

     path to success was freely offered on the List? How

     many such $hours$ were made available for more productive

     efforts because of ideas shared on the List? Where

     else can you get nearly instantaneous like-minded

     individuals located anywhere on the surface of the

     planet?



     It's an honorable free-market decision for everyone who

     participates on Matt's lists. One can free-load for ever,

     and nobody is going to kick them off the List. At the same

     time there is always risk that Matt will find the demans

     on $time$ too great for his skills, resources and willingness

     to to bear. I'm not suggesting that Matt is approaching

     anything a tipping point . . . but it would be short-sighted

     of us not to consider the extremes of all possibilities

     both pleasant and unpleasant. We make choices, react to those

     choices and hope we accurately assess risk, return on investment

     and consequences.



     I suggest that an investment that won't take the family

     out to McDonald's offers an attractive and often demonstrated

     return with very low risk.



         Bob . . .

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Michael Wynn

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 148
Location: San Ramon, CA

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: What's My Contribution Used For?

I can only say that my contribution is a real bargin.  There is so much useful information on this and the other associated lists.  Thanks, Bob, for all the time you put into this.

 

 Regards,

 

 Michael Wynn

 

 

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