[Fwd: Appeal to Listowners]

[ddr11]

Dear CHINOOK members, please consider the appeal below from our kind
sponsors at LINGUISTlist.  Many thanks for your continued support!  -- 
Dave R.


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Subject: Appeal to Listowners
From:    "LINGUIST Network" <linguist at linguistlist.org>
Date:    Mon, April 9, 2007 7:39 pm
To:      linguist at linguistlist.org
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Dear Listowners:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

http://linguistlist.org/donation/

Thank you very much!

Anthony Aristar
Moderator, LINGUIST


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Anthony Aristar, Director, Institute for Language Information & Technology
                  Professor of Linguistics
Moderator, LINGUIST               Principal Investigator, EMELD Project
Linguistics Program
Dept. of English                  aristar at linguistlist.org
Eastern Michigan University            2000 Huron River Dr, Suite 104
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
U.S.A.

URL: http://linguistlist.org/aristar/
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