<div>Dear Professor Schiffman:</div> <div> </div> <div>I am sorry to hear that you had a heart attack. I requested theAmerican Embassy to sponsor you to attend our International Conference on July 4-5, 2008, but they turned me down on the basis that Thailand is not fully democratic. Professor Bernard Spolsky is coming and also is Lo Bianco from Australia. I will keep trying to persuade the American Embassy to see whether they will change their mind.</div> <div> </div> <div>Sincerely,</div> <div>Udom<BR><BR><B><I>Harold Schiffman <haroldfs@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>Don,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks; you're right that the information, especially for people who joined years ago, is not current. I sometimes update things if I get information about a change of some sort, but I often discover changes only by accident--someone
moves to another institution, resubscribes, and I don't know about it unless I read through the whole dbase of 400+ members. But I don't mind the work that's involved; I wish we had funding to hire a programmer, but my efforts to get $$ have not borne fruit, and now that I'm retired (and after my recent heart attack) I've had to curtail some activities. If things get more difficult, I will have to ask someone else to take over, but for now I'm okay.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We're going to save the dbase and put it up somewhere else, where it will be safer, but for now I'm not sure where that will be. I could venture into Yahoo groups or Google groups, but I think we'd lose people who don't know how to manage that kind of stuff.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hal<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Feb 8, 2008 10:13 PM, Don Osborn <<A href="mailto:dzo@bisharat.net">dzo@bisharat.net</A>> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear Hal, The list and website are valuable resources. My only concern is<BR>that they both rely on one person (you) to keep them going.<BR><BR>• Please let me know if you personally wish this database to be somehow<BR> <DIV class=Ih2E3d>available, somewhere, i.e. I need to know the following:<BR></DIV>o Have you ever consulted it?<BR> Yes, but not recently<BR><BR>o Do you find it useful?<BR> Yes, and I anticipate using it again, but with all databases there<BR>is a question from the user point of view of the currency of the data, and<BR>from the manager's p.o.v. how to maintain it.<BR><BR>o Do you think it has ever been compromised? <BR> No, but that is an opinion not from extensive or recent use.<BR><BR>Thanks for asking and for continuing to manage CLPP.<BR><FONT
color=#888888><BR>Don<BR><BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<BR><BR>Harold F. Schiffman<BR><BR>Professor Emeritus of <BR>Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <BR>Dept. of South Asia Studies <BR>University of Pennsylvania<BR>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<BR><BR>Phone: (215) 898-7475<BR>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <BR><BR>Email: <A href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</A><BR><A href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</A> <BR><BR>------------------------------------------------- </BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR><div><FONT color=#00bf60><FONT face=courier color=#8000ff>Udom</FONT></div></FONT><p>
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