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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 10 April 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: Fund drive</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Folks,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Below please find a copy of an appeal sent to all relevant list owners by Anthony Aristar of LINGUIST, the organization that has been hosting us and a good number of other lists in terms of list server and archives. As most of you will agree, this is a very valuable service. For this reason, I strongly encourage everyone to consider donating at least a little bit to allow our gracious hosts to raise the remaining needed funds and thus to continue their services.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thank you.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
(just back in Seattle from California)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**********</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dear Listowners:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
As you know, the LINGUIST List provides you
with Listserv facilities without any charge. We do this because we
feel that it is important that there be no barriers to the free
interchange of information between those interested in language and
linguistics, and we know that many of you have no access to good
listserv software, or to any place to archive their postings. We're
genuinely happy to help with this.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">However, as you also probably
know, running the LINGUIST site, with its servers and expensive
software -- four Unix servers, five Oracle databases, Coldfusion
server, Listserv, map server and Java and PHP servers -- is not
cheap. The only way we can provide these services free is to do what
we do now, and have an annual fund drive.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">We're very close to
the end of this drive. We need only around $16,000 more to make our
goal of $55,000. So we're writing this message to ask if you would be
generous enough to send a call to your members, asking them to
contribute to our drive, so that the services we have been providing,
for free, we can continue to provide... for free.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">You know that
we send you messages like this very rarely. We don't want to bother
you. And we'd like to emphasize that there is no obligation on your
part to do as we are asking. This is entirely voluntary on your part.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But if you would be willing to help us, and ask your list-members to contribute, we'd be very grateful. Our donation page is:
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" target="_blank" href="http://linguistlist.org/donation/">http://linguistlist.org/donation/
</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thank you very much!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Anthony Aristar</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Moderator, LINGUIST</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Anthony Aristar, Director, Institute for Language Information & Technology</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Professor of Linguistics
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Moderator, LINGUIST Principal Investigator, EMELD Project</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Linguistics Program</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dept. of English <a href="mailto:aristar@linguistlist.org">aristar@linguistlist.org</a></span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Eastern Michigan University 2000 Huron River Dr, Suite 104</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Ypsilanti, MI 48197</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">U.S.A.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
URL: </span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" target="_blank" href="http://linguistlist.org/aristar/">http://linguistlist.org/aristar/</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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