10.880, All: LINGUIST and the Y2k Bug

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-880. Wed Jun 9 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.880, All: LINGUIST and the Y2k Bug

Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>
            Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Associate Editors:  Martin Jacobsen <marty at linguistlist.org>
                    Brett Churchill <brett at linguistlist.org>
                    Ljuba Veselinova <ljuba at linguistlist.org>

Assistant Editors:  Scott Fults <scott at linguistlist.org>
		    Jody Huellmantel <jody at linguistlist.org>
		    Karen Milligan <karen at linguistlist.org>

Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
                      Chris Brown <chris at linguistlist.org>

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/


Editor for this issue: Helen Dry <hdry at emunix.emich.edu>

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Date:  Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:53:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:  LINGUIST Network <linguist at linguistlist.org>
Subject:  LINGUIST and the Y2k Bug

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Date:  Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:53:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:  LINGUIST Network <linguist at linguistlist.org>
Subject:  LINGUIST and the Y2k Bug


Dear Subscribers,

LINGUIST has had some bad news.  The developers of listserv software
have admitted that the version which LINGUIST runs is not Year 2000
compliant.  As most of you know, listserv is an email-list management
program--the only one, to our knowledge, able to handle a list the
size of LINGUIST.  And, as most of you can easily imagine, a Y2K Bug
could play havoc with a date-oriented operation like LINGUIST.  So we
have no choice but to upgrade to the newest version of listserv.  But
an upgrade costs $2500.

Our recent fund drive netted us $12,000, enough to pay 2 student
editors for 1999-2000, but not enough to appease the Y2K Bug as well.
So we are coming to you for help.  If you feel you could donate a
little money to help us purchase the upgrade, please donate
by credit card at http://linguistlist.org/donation.html or send a check to:

The LINGUIST Editorial Support Fund
c/o Helen Aristar Dry
Dept. of English Language and Literature
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197

We are heartily grateful for the support of the 74 donors, listed
below, who have already contributed this year, making it possible for
us to fund fellowships for next year's LINGUIST editors.  Their
generosity is what makes it possible for us to continue year after year.

However, LINGUIST has 11,900 subscribers. Probably some of you have
been meaning to send us a donation but haven't gotten around to it yet
(and we DO know how that happens, term-endings being what they
are). If you will contribute something now to help us with this unexpected
Y2K expense, we will be sincerely grateful.

-Anthony, Helen, Andrew
LINGUIST Moderators


Our sincere thanks to the 1999 contributors listed below:

Mainstays (over $100)

 Linguistic Association of Great Britain
 Ann-Marie Andrew
 Microsoft
 Anonymous
 Alan K.   Engel
 Graeme    Forbes
 Carolyn   Hartnett
 Elizabeth Liddy
 Rebecca Larch  Moreton
 David     Parkinson
 Carlota   Smith
 Catherine Walter
 Jung Ju   Yoon

 Supporters ($50 - $100)

 Stefano     Bertolo
 Corina      Chen
 Virginia    Clark
 Linda       Coleman
 Hortensia   Curell
 Laura J.    Downing
 Susan       Fischer
 Charles     Gribble
 Carolyn     Grinnell Kirkpatrick
 Nancy       Hansmann
 Richard     Hudson
 Suzanne     Kemmer
 Andrew      Mackie
 Lisa Reed and  Marc Authier
 M. Lynn     Murphy
 Kunio       Nishiyama
 Barbara     Olson-Herrarte
 Ingo        Plag
 Catherine   Rudin
 Andreas     Schramm
 George A.   Senf
 Ute         Smit
 Pius        ten Hacken
 Elly        van Gelderen
 Doug        Whalen
 Ronnie      Wilbur
 Dovie R.    Wylie (in memory of Keith Denning)

Donors ($1 - $50)

 Ozark Center for Language Studies
 University of Canterbury
 Francesca    Bargiela
 Elena       Bashir
 Katherine   Bassein
 Anthony     Davis
 Elaine J.   Francis
 Rosa J.     Garcia
 Frank       Gladney
 Henry M.    Hoenigswald
 Alice       Horning
 Mary Jane   Hurst
 Yuri        Kite
 Harriet     Klein
 Michael     Kliffer
 Scott and Rebecca McGinnis
 Edith       Moravcik
 Andrea G.   Osburne
 Lynn        Santelmann
 Ronald      Schaefer
 Angelick    van Hout

Institutions (over $100)

 Cornell University
 Max Planck Institute
 Acculab
 Arizona State University
 City University of Hong Kong
 Harvard University
 Nanyang Technical University
 Ohio State
 Pacific Search Consultants
 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
 Rutgers University
 Stanford Univ., Computer Sci Dept
 U of Canterbury
 U of Michigan, Dept of Asian Langs
 U of Minnesota, Asian Lang Dept
 University of Maryland, Baltimore County, D of Ed
 University of North Texas
 University of S. Carolina
 University of Surrey

1999 Supporting Publishers

Major Supporters ($500)

   * Blackwell Publishers
   * Edward Arnold Press, Publishers of linguistics and psychology
   * Elsevier Science
   * Holland Academic Graphics (HAG)	
   * John Benjamins Publishing Company
   * Kluwer Academic Publishers
   * Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
   * Lincom Europa
   * MIT Press (Books Division)
   * Mouton de Gruyter
   * Multilingual Matters, Ltd.

Other Supporting Publishers

   * Cascadilla Press
   * CSLI Publications
   * Finno-Ugrian Society
   * IULC Publications
   * Pacific Linguistics
   * Summer Institute of Linguistics
   * Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS
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