<OT> A message from the LINGUIST List

Sat Apr 18 11:59:03 PDT 2009

Dear Optimal List members:

Unlike the Optimal List and ROA, the LINGUIST List has a staff of students
who require funding to keep list going. Please consider contributing a
little something during their current fund drive. The message from Anthony
Aristar copied further below clarifies. Since this message was sent out a
few days ago, the fund drive has gotten around $20,000 closer to their goal
of $60,000. But more is still needed!

Here's the quick link to donate:

http://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

-- Eric Bakovic, on behalf of the Optimal List and ROA

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.

This has been a bad year for everyone and everything... And our fund drive
is no exception. We are only halfway to our goal of $60,000, and the fund
drive has been running for almost three weeks. Frankly, we are getting
worried... So we're writing this message to ask if you would be generous
enough to send a call to your members -- if you haven't done this already --
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.

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/donate/donate1.cfm

Thank you very much!

Anthony Aristar
Moderator, LINGUIST
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