Been busy. The check WILL be in the mail. Thanks for the service.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 2:58 AM
Subject: Server fund drive update
>
>
>It has been about a week since I sent out the initial request soliciting
>funds for a new server and such. Response so far has been pretty good,
>judging by the number of envelopes in my post office box the last few days.
>I have yet to open most of them, hope to get a lot of that done this coming
>weekend. So I can't as yet offer any feel for the actual numbers involved
>in this fund drive. There's also a bundle of email I have yet to answer,
>so please be patient.
>
>Chances are, though, that you all realize the hours I put in for the
support
>of the lists is somewhere between a quarter to a half of the time put into
a
>full time job, and have figured out a rough idea of your gross income for
>1999. With each and every one of you having sent off a certified check for
>1/4 of your gross annual salary, you can now rest assured that the lists
will
>go on as is. I'll be buying a vast expanse of Utah sagebrush soon, enough
for
>a 2 to 3 mile road racing course, a 5,000 square foot shop, maybe a 10,000
>square foot storage warehouse, a zillion megabit net connection for
Team.Net,
>and so on.
>
>Sorry, enough dreaming. Count on about 1 percent of the subscribers
sending in
>a donation, an average of twenty or so US dollars each. You know, I
sometimes
>get the feeling that some of the $5 and $10 checks represent a larger chunk
of
>the donor's net worth than the occasional $50 or $100 check. Part of the
reason
>I try to avoid lists of who gives what.
>
>Anyway, what I expect we'll get out of this is maybe $1,500 to $2,000 for a
>more powerful server, and another $1,000 or so to set up and sustain, for
some
>number of months, a decent network connection independant of the U of Utah.
>The decision I'll have to make is whether I should stick with just
upgrading
>the Hewlett-Packard 730 HP-UX system that currently runs the email, web and
>FTP services, or venture into the world of Intel processors and most likely
>Linux. We shall see.
>
>Anyway, those of you who have already responded please accept my heartfelt
>thanks for keeping the spirit of these lists alive. For those of you who
>would like to contribute but don't have the financial resources at the
moment,
>don't sweat it, you've got friends here. And those of you who let my first
>request slip by, take note. Send contributions, be it in the form of a
check
>payable in US dollars, made out to the Fat Chance Garage, or the required
info
>to charge to a Visa or MasterCard account, or nifty T shirts, or ???? to:
>
> Fat Chance Garage
> PO Box 58333
> Salt Lake City, Utah 84158
>
>
>Again, thanks to you all for making this endeavor what it is and shall be.
>
>mjb.
>
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