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| Subject: | Why? [Please Read] |
Dear Listers,
Each year I like to explain why I have a Fund Raiser and also take the opportunity
to express why I think the List Services here provide a superior experience
over the commercial equivalents.
I use the List Fund Raiser each year to offset the costs involved with running
a high performance email list site such as this one. With the annual support
from the List members through the PBS-like Fund Raiser, I have found I can run
the entire site without having to inflect any of the members with those annoying
banner ads flashing up all the time trying to sell little-blue-pills or other
garbage nobody wants or needs. From the comments I've received over the years
regarding the Lists, the great majority of the members really appreciate
the non-commercialism of my List systems and don't mind my 'go-team-go' banter
once a year during November to encourage members to support the Lists.
I believe that the Lists services that I provide here offer many benefits over
the commercial equivalents in a number of ways. The first feature I believe to
be significant is that you cannot receive a computer v*rus from any of these
Lists directly. Each incoming message is filtered and dangerous attachments
stripped off prior to posting. I also provide a Photo and File Share feature
that allows members to share files and bitmaps with other members and everyone
can be assured that these files will be prescanned for any sort of v*rus before
they are posted. Safe and simple.
Another very important feature of this system in my opinion is the extensive List
Archives that are available for download, browsing, and searching. The Archives
go all the way back to the very beginning of each List and with the very
fast Search Engine, the huge size of some of the Archives is a non-issue in quickly
finding the data you're looking for.
And added just this year is the new Email List Forum that allows members who prefer
the Web BBS-style of List interaction. The beauty of the new List Forums
is that they contain the exact same content that is distributed via email. Messages
posted via email are cross-posted to the respective Forum and vice versa.
The Forums also allow for another convenient method of sharing pictures and
other files. Additionally added this year is the new List Wiki that allows
members to build their own "Online List Encyclopedia" of sorts, documenting various
aspects of their project for all to share.
I've been running email Lists and services under the matronics.com domain since
about 1989 starting with RV-List and 30 guys I knew and who where also building
RVs. It has grown into nearly 70 different aviation-related Email Lists and
an associated web site that receives over 23,000,000 hits each year!! Additionally,
the List Email system forwarded well over 87,000 postings last year,
accounting for an unbelievable 39,000,000 (yes, that's 39 MILLION) email messages
delivered to Matronics List subscribers! I think there's a lot of value in
supporting a service that has gone the long haul and is still providing and
improving a high quality service all _without any advertising budget_!
I have to admit running these Lists is a labor of love and I hope it shows in the
quality of the experience that you receive when you get a List Email Message,
Search the Archives, use the List Browser, or surf the Forums and Wiki sites.
The Lists will be here for a long time to come. If you just want to lurk
a while for free, that's great and I encourage you to do so. If you use, appreciate,
and receive value from these Lists, then please support them during the
Annual List Fund Raiser!
List Contribution Web Site:
http://www.matronics.com/contribution
Thank you,
Matt Dralle
Matronics Email List Administrator
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| Subject: | Re: Why? [Please Read] |
<p>Matt</p><p>How about taking me off your dist. I have been flying the RV for
several years and don't get to read all your emails.</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Peter</p><p
/><p>> > > --> RV6-List message posted by: Matt Dralle >
> Dear Listers, > > Each year I like to explain why I have a Fund Raiser
and also take the opportunity to express why I think the List Services here
provide a superior experience over the commercial equivalents. > > I use
the List Fund Raiser each year to offset the costs involved with running a
high performance email list site such as this one. With the annual support from
the List members through the PBS-like Fund Raiser, I have found I can run the
entire site without having to inflect any of the members with those annoying
banner ads flashing up all the time trying to sell little-blue-pills or other
garbage nobody wants or needs. From the comments I've received over the years
regarding the Lists, the great majority of the mem!
bers really appreciate the non-commercialism of my List systems and don't mind
my 'go-team-go' banter once a year during November to encourage members to support
the Lists. > > I believe that the Lists services that I provide here
offer many benefits over the commercial equivalents in a number of ways. The
first feature I believe to be significant is that you cannot receive a computer
v*rus from any of these Lists directly. Each incoming message is filtered
and dangerous attachments stripped off prior to posting. I also provide a Photo
and File Share feature that allows members to share files and bitmaps with other
members and everyone can be assured that these files will be prescanned for
any sort of v*rus before they are posted. Safe and simple. > > Another
very important feature of this system in my opinion is the extensive List Archives
that are available for download, browsing, and searching. The Archives
go all the way back to the very beginning of each Li!
st and with the very fast Search Engine, the huge size of some of the
Archives is a non-issue in quickly finding the data you're looking for. > >
And added just this year is the new Email List Forum that allows members who
prefer the Web BBS-style of List interaction. The beauty of the new List Forums
is that they contain the exact same content that is distributed via email.
Messages posted via email are cross-posted to the respective Forum and vice versa.
The Forums also allow for another convenient method of sharing pictures
and other files. Additionally added this year is the new List Wiki that allows
members to build their own "Online List Encyclopedia" of sorts, documenting
various aspects of their project for all to share. > > I've been
running email Lists and services under the matronics.com domain since about
1989 starting with RV-List and 30 guys I knew and who where also building RVs.
It has grown into nearly 70 different aviation-related Email Lists and an associated
web site that receives over 23,000,000 hits !
each year!! Additionally, the List Email system forwarded well over 87,000 postings last year, accounting for an unbelievable 39,000,000 (yes, that's 39 MILLION) email messages delivered to Matronics List subscribers! I think there's a lot of value in supporting a service that has gone the long haul and is still providing and improving a high quality service all _without any advertising budget_! > > I have to admit running these Lists is a labor of love and I hope it shows in the quality of the experience that you receive when you get a List Email Message, Search the Archives, use the List Browser, or surf the Forums and Wiki sites. The Lists will be here for a long time to come. If you just want to lurk a while for free, that's great and I encourage you to do so. If you use, appreciate, and receive value from these Lists, then please support them during the Annual List Fund Raiser! > > List Contribution Web Site: > > http://www.matronics.com/contribution !
> > Thank you, > > Matt Dralle > Matronics Email List A
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