RE: *** ADMIN: Contributions again -- MIDRANGE-NONTECH

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David,

I have missed all of the midrange.com posts since Monday night since I am in 
between jobs right now, so I have no idea how this all turned out, except by 
your $750 figure.  Nothing in the archives yet, either.  I would just like to 
clarify that I *think* I never said that midrange.com was strapped for cash 
(and I suppose people could have jumped to that conclusion by all the 
telethon-type pitches that occurred over the past few days), but I would say 
that if you're like me David, you're not going to spend money on improvements 
if you don't have it in your midrange.com budget.

But I would like to add that as an avid user of midrange.com, I would hope that 
the contributions would go a long way (hopefully all the way) towards 
"improving" your budget and the ideal solution of the hardware-based mirroring 
scenario.  I personally have come to depend on the lists, and a day without 
midrange.com is a day without sunshine. (Sorry)  Anything that would boost the 
uptime and reduce the unscheduled downtime of the lists would be a GOOD THING 
in my book.

- Dan Bale> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 9:18 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com; midrange-nontech@midrange.com
> Subject: *** ADMIN: Contributions again
>
>
> Ok, I'm home and can spend a bit more time on this subject.
>
> I'd like to make it clear that MIDRANGE.COM is *NOT* strapped for cash.
>
> I did have a hard drive failure, and the system is mostly
> recovered. I was
> able to recover from a tape backup (tape drive provided by Simon
> Coulter). We may have lost a day or so of data, but I don't think it will
> be critical.
>
> The system is currently running on a spare 20gb hard drive I had handy ...
> the drive will soon be joined by a twin to be mirrored with. For now I
> will probably use software mirroring... although I would like to invest in
> hardware mirroring in the near future.
>
> I do appreciate the contributions, and will put them to good use.
>
> As far as JT's offer to match contributions ... that's a lot of money, and
> I'd rather pass on it for now. Not counting those contributions that were
> mailed, more than $750 was contributed today. That's enough to keep us in
> mirrored drives and DSL for quite some time.
>
> I will say, however, that a bunch of you should REALLY consider
> volunteering for your local PBS or NPR stations ... boy, you can get them
> riled up :)
>
> Again, thanks for the contributions.
>
> david



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