Matt Dralle Site Admin
  
  Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 26398 Location: Livermore CA USA
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				 Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:23 am    Post subject: Contributions Down By 21%... | 
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				Dear Listers,
 
 As of today, contributions to the Matronics List Fund Raiser are lagging behind last year at this time by 21%.  I have a fund raiser each year simply to cover my operating costs for the Lists.  I *do not* accept any advertising income to support the Lists and rely solely on the contributions of members to keep the expenses paid.
 
 I run all of my own servers and they are housed here locally, and the Internet connection is a commercial-grade, T1 connection with public address space.  I also maintain a full backup system that does nightly backups of all List-related data so that in the event of a server crash or worse, all of the Lists and the many years of List archive data could be restored onto a new server in a matter of hours.
 
 All of this costs a fair amount of money, not to mention a significant amount of my personal time as well.  I have a Fund Raiser each year to cover these costs and I ask that members that feel they receive a benefit from my investments, make a modest contribution each year to support the continued operation and upgrade of these services.
 
 If you enjoy the Lists, please make a contribution today.  I also offer some incentive gifts for larger contribution levels.  At the Contribution Web Wite, you can use a credit card, Paypal, or personal check to show your support for the continuation of these services:
 
 	http://www.matronics.com/contribution
 
 Thank you for your support!
 
 Matt Dralle
 Matronics Email List Administrator
 
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