That makes sense. My business is off 55% this year. The company I buy pa
rts from, their sales are down 45%. Wish I could help. I'm still making
payments too.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
To: teamgrumman-list@matronics.com
Sent: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 12:14 am
Subject: Contributions Down By 21%...
Dear Listers,
As of today, contributions to the Matronics List Fund Raiser are lagging
behind
last year at this time by 21%. I have a fund raiser each year simply to
cover
my operating costs for the Lists. I *do not* accept any advertising incom
e to
support the Lists and rely solely on the contributions of members to keep
the
expenses paid.
I run all of my own servers and they are housed here locally, and the Inte
rnet
connection is a commercial-grade, T1 connection with public address space.
I
also maintain a full backup system that does nightly backups of all List-r
elated
data so that in the event of a server crash or worse, all of the Lists and
the
many years of List archive data could be restored onto a new server in a
matter
of hours.
All of this costs a fair amount of money, not to mention a significant amo
unt of
my personal time as well. I have a Fund Raiser each year to cover these
costs
and I ask that members that feel they receive a benefit from my investment
s,
make a modest contribution each year to support the continued operation an
d
upgrade of these services.
If you enjoy the Lists, please make a contribution today. I also offer so
me
incentive gifts for larger contribution levels. At the Contribution Web
Wite,
you can use a credit card, Paypal, or personal check to show your support
for
the continuation of these services:
http://www.matronics.com/contribution
Thank you for your support!
Matt Dralle
Matronics Email List Administrator
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