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Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 67 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jul 1, 1999 (17:40) * 34 lines
I've just put up a page thanking our contributors at
http://www.spring.net/sponsors
Thanks to all these folks who have donated a total of over $1,200 since
January 1, 1999.
Ann Haker
Ann Whittle
Barbara Farley
Charlotte Clayton
Claire Chan
Eileen Green
Evelyn Boake
Genette Irlbeck
Gisela Sardinha
Heide Kalbach
Jana Hendricks
Kathleen Born
Lizza Davies
Maarit Helena Doinio
Marcia Hemming
Nancy Palmarini
Stacey Vura
T McAvoy
Willem Friesema
If I've left anyone off the list, my apologies. One or two letters were
lost in the mails. Overall we're nearly on target to our goal of $4,800 a
year which is the cost of colocating our three servers (barton, www and
access) on a T-3 connection in downtown Austin.
Thanks so much to everyone who's helping and to those who are signing up
for Visto via our link.
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Response 68 of 355: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (02:45) * 1 lines
THANKS!!!
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Response 69 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (11:22) * 7 lines
Don't forget to sign up your dog and cat (and goldfish) for Visto too!
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Response 70 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (14:20) * 3 lines
Terry, please fix whatever was messed up when the Visto icon was added to Drool's pages.
We are seeing the date, time, poster's name and email within the body of the response. Very ugly. Disturbs my keen sense of esthetics! ;-D
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Response 71 of 355: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (14:35) * 1 lines
good point...I'll ditch them and start over...
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Response 72 of 355: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 9, 1999 (14:41) * 1 lines
all better yet?
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Response 73 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Aug 11, 1999 (23:31) * 1 lines
Must be, Dear! No one has complained in over a month. Droolians are not that tolerant, normally =)
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Response 74 of 355: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Aug 12, 1999 (10:41) * 1 lines
I am not even taking that bait...*wink*
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Response 75 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Aug 12, 1999 (20:24) * 1 lines
*smile* You are wise!
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Response 76 of 355: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Aug 14, 1999 (01:44) * 1 lines
occasionally, I get lucky...
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Response 77 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Aug 14, 1999 (11:29) * 1 lines
*smiling knowingly* I am glad to hear it.
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Response 78 of 355: Renate (Renata) * Tue, Nov 2, 1999 (03:00) * 5 lines
Only now I read your message closely:
(Terry) One or two letters were lost in the mails.
Does that mean you never got a letter from me? Never got any kind of confirmation. Terry, I would like to know before I send off another one.
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Response 79 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Nov 3, 1999 (21:28) * 4 lines
I got yours, fortunately, and I am getting them reliably now. I really
appreciate your contribution!
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Response 80 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Nov 3, 1999 (21:38) * 1 lines
Mine will be in the mail to you tomorrow as well as one for Stacey's efforts in the Honolulu Marathon for the Lukemia Society. These checks are my Christmas present to me from me...and to you *grin*
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Response 81 of 355: (sprin5) * Sat, Dec 2, 2000 (14:48) * 7 lines
Thanks so much to all those folks who have contributed to our latest fund drive. We are now accepting contributions on Paypal on the site:
http://www.spring.net/paypal
This has been a great effort and I can't thank everyone enough. As a small token, I'm sending out a picture of the Spring's Cedar Creek location, a nature picture or something, to the next 13 folks who send in a $25 or more donation. I sent out two already today to the nice folks from Cinncinnati and Lansdale, PA who contributed via Paypal.
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Response 82 of 355: (sprin5) * Sat, Dec 2, 2000 (18:57) * 1 lines
A huge thank you and lots of hugs for the wonderful people of drool who put up at least 80% of the funds we needed to keep our software running! This was a great effort and is very, very appreciated!
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Response 83 of 355: (sprin5) * Thu, Dec 7, 2000 (22:30) * 14 lines
I just paid $199 to our host for extra bandwith for austen.com, if you're a supporter of austen.com and want to help in some way with this cost, please click on this link and send $5 automatically to spring.net just for signing up (it won't cost you anything).
https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=terry%40spring.net
Or you can send contributions the old fashioned way to:
Paul Terry Walhus
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Don't worry about this though, I just cut a deal with our provider to charge (in the future months) for a flat $40 a month for this bandwidth. austen.com uses a lot of disk space, which is ok, and I've covered this for the future.
Again, my hearty thanks for everyone who supported our recent drive to pay Kaylene Thaler. I fully understand if you haven't caught your breath from this effort, but am hoping just joining PayPal and getting $5 to the Spring will be an easy way to cover this disk charge. All I need is for 40 folks to sign up . . .
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Response 84 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Dec 7, 2000 (23:04) * 1 lines
Most austen.com people don't come here, Terry. Ann has put a fund-raising notice up at her place with the PayPal clickthru.
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Response 85 of 355: (sprin5) * Fri, Dec 8, 2000 (08:46) * 1 lines
Thanks, Karen. You have helped immeasurably in this effort.
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Response 86 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Dec 8, 2000 (09:14) * 1 lines
I had nothing to do with Ann's action. She did it herself.
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Response 87 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (00:48) * 11 lines
Time to renew our drive, I had over $1,000 in bills from our old provider last month, which is why I'm moving all the sites to a new provider where it will be less than $400 a month.
Use the paypal link on http://www.spring.net or send checks to:
Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Please indicate what you are supporting (eg. austen, firth, bjd, or spring).
I got 3 great contributions this weekend. Thanks!
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Response 88 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug 16, 2001 (11:59) * 1 lines
We need to do a mini-pledge drive right now to catch up on some isp charges and some consulting. So if you can, go to our main page at http://www.spring.net and chip in whatever you can! Thanks. You can contribute via paypal or mail to The Spring, 182 Clover Rd, Cedar Creek, TX 78612. Checks made out to the Spring.
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Response 89 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 20, 2001 (12:26) * 9 lines
In a normal month, I would have funds on the 15th to cover our server
costs. This month is different because I have to pay property taxes on my
house and all my salary and rental income etc. has to go to that. So I
have to raise $300 pretty quickly to pay our server hosting fee. I need
your help this month more than ever. After 60 days, the pressure will be
off again, but now I particularly need your help and donations. Please
use the Paypal donate button on our main page or mail checks to The
Spring, 182 Clover Rd, Cedar Creek, TX 78612. I'm 5 days overdue on this
server bill but I think they'll cut me a little more slack on it.
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Response 90 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 20, 2001 (14:24) * 1 lines
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?return=http%3A//www.spring.net/paypal&item_name=Contribution+to+austen%2C+drool%0D%0Aor+Spring&submit.x=17&submit.y=17&business=terry%40spring.net&item_number=3&no_intl=1&cmd=_xclick
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Response 91 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Mon, Aug 20, 2001 (15:05) * 4 lines
I'm sending you my check this afternoon, Terry.
Pl. credit Drool, and check your email.
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Response 92 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Mon, Aug 20, 2001 (15:11) * 9 lines
Terry,
Drool's annual fund-raising drive will again be held in September. Evelyn and I will be helping Terry in the meantime.
If people would like to contribute now, please contact me for instructions. I don't put my address up on public boards. However, I will be doing the collection again on behalf of this community, as Ann H did very recently with her austen.com group. In addition, I will be making arrangements for funds to be collected with the UK too as well as other countries.
Thanks
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Response 93 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 20, 2001 (17:00) * 1 lines
Thanks so much Karen and Evelyn! I'm working on my end on getting some DVD prgograms going and trying as many ways as I can to alleviate the situation. In correspondence with KarenR!
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Response 94 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 1, 2001 (11:09) * 52 lines
Starting today, we're going to have four quarterly fund raising drives to
pay our isp bills, make improvements, do backups and expand and add new
features (faster server with bigger hard drives, etc). The pledge drives
will be held on
October 1-15, 2001
January 1-15, 2002
April 1-15, 2002
July 1-15, 2002
The goal of the current pledge drive is to pay all or a good portion of
the $900 per quarter hosting fees we pay, plus another $600 to initiate a
schedule of full backups to our server and an emergency preparedness plan.
This quarter 25% of all donations will go to the newly established college
fund for children of the survivors of the World Trade Center attack.
Send your checks to:
The Spring
182 Clover Road
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Use these logos to sign up (if you aren't a Paypal member and to make donations):
If you want to send your donations to Ann or Karen directly, and have them
forward them to me, that's fine. Ann has handled this extremely well in
the past and that way I can track which site they're earmarked for. This
pledge drive includes Spring, Drool, Firth and Austen.
Thanks! Your contributions have been generous in the past and have kept
this place rolling along. We hope to be secure, safe and more robust in
the future as a website where you can freely express your thoughts and
feelings and honor your heroes.
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Response 95 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Oct 10, 2001 (10:56) * 59 lines
Resp 94 of 94: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) Mon, Oct 1, 2001 (10:09) 52 lines
Starting today, we're going to have four quarterly fund raising
drives to
pay our isp bills, make improvements, do backups and expand and add
new
features (faster server with bigger hard drives, etc). The pledge
drives
will be held on
October 1-15, 2001
January 1-15, 2002
April 1-15, 2002
July 1-15, 2002
The goal of the current pledge drive is to pay all or a good portion
of
the $900 per quarter hosting fees we pay, plus another $600 to
initiate a
schedule of full backups to our server and an emergency preparedness
plan.
This quarter 25% of all donations will go to the newly established
college
fund for children of the survivors of the World Trade Center attack.
Send your checks to:
The Spring
182 Clover Road
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Use these logos to sign up (if you aren't a Paypal member and to make
donations):
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Response 96 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 11, 2001 (10:33) * 1 lines
Nothing in yet, my isp bill is overdue. I encourage folks to contribute someting, no matter how small. Thanks!
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Response 97 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Oct 13, 2001 (08:33) * 1 lines
Still no donations on the current quarterly Pledge Drive, I'm going to get on the email and the phone and try to drum up some support.
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Response 98 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Sat, Oct 13, 2001 (11:46) * 6 lines
Terry, I give yearly and send it to Karen. Would you like for me to break up my donation in quarters?That's a lot of trouble for her to handle the drive four times a year though.Esp with the friends in overseas.
And how about letting us know the total amount that is collected by Drool? I know the Tea Room amount was posted last year.*Total* is not invading anybody's privacy.
We need a little structure, IMO.
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Response 99 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Oct 13, 2001 (23:32) * 21 lines
It's wonderful that you give annually, and I'm most appreciative. No need
to split it up in quarters!
I got the first donation of this drive today, $50, which is one sixth of
the way to paying this months hosting charges of $296.00. That's a
start! I'd like to see the load spread out among more folks, and not
weighing so heavily on myself and a few others.
I'm encouraged by today's Paypal contribution.
If you would like to give, please click the Paypal button to "donate" at
http://www.spring.net. Or send check payable to The Spring to:
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
I sent a $12.50 check to the college fund for WTC survivors today, a
fourth of the contribution I received.
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Response 100 of 355: Eileen (EileenG) * Wed, Oct 17, 2001 (17:26) * 1 lines
Guess my donation from the summer counted toward last quarter. :-/
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Response 101 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Wed, Oct 17, 2001 (17:26) * 1 lines
Yup, you're counted.
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Response 102 of 355: Allison M (Allison2) * Wed, Oct 17, 2001 (18:59) * 1 lines
sent mine to Tracy. Hope it arrived.
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Response 103 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Wed, Oct 17, 2001 (19:15) * 1 lines
I'll be checking with Tracy tomorrow to see how her collection effort is going.
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Response 104 of 355: Rebecca Carson (Becka) * Wed, Oct 17, 2001 (23:41) * 3 lines
I'll be sending something via PayPal shortly as well (as I'm in Canada) - depending on whether I've line up work in the next few weeks (fingers crossed).
This site has been a great way to pass time while off and deserves all the support it can get.
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Response 105 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 22, 2001 (10:37) * 11 lines
Not doing too well this pledge drive. One $50 check received, another lost check in the mail, no paypal contributions yet.
No where near the goal of paying the hosting fees for this month of $296, and no where close to the $888 hosting cost for the quarter, and I'm hoping to raise enough to start backing up this system as part of an emergency preparedness plan.
Please mail contributions to
The Spring (Firth, Drool and Austen)
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Or just click the Paypal Donate button at http://www.spring.net or any of the other sister websites.
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Response 106 of 355: TracyT (Tracy) * Sun, Oct 28, 2001 (16:20) * 3 lines
Attention UK donators - just to let you know, and you know who you are, the final total is £120 and I've sent it off by PayPal this evening.
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Response 107 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Sun, Oct 28, 2001 (18:30) * 2 lines
Thanks Tracy...good to hear from you; we miss you :-(((
And thanks to the UK friends who are helping to make Spring possible:-)))
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Response 108 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 28, 2001 (19:53) * 1 lines
I got it, thanks so much Tracy! I got it via Paypal a few hours ago. I am most appreciative!
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Response 109 of 355: Liz K (ekelley) * Tue, Nov 13, 2001 (10:31) * 3 lines
Hey Terry. I sent a donation through paypal the other day. Did you get it? Just want to make sure. Thanks, Liz
oh, btw, I have changed email addresses. How do I change it here, so when you rollover my user name it gives the right one? I can't figure it out.
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Response 110 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Nov 13, 2001 (10:34) * 1 lines
Got it Liz, thanks so much! It came through on November 8th, and big thank yous to Tuquyen, Trina, Hayoun, Philip, Annabella, Tracy T, Patricia, and Marcia!
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Response 111 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Tue, Nov 13, 2001 (10:47) * 3 lines
Terry, those newest ones (beginning 5) are from austen.com. Either you should be thanking them personally or have Ann do it.
Liz, to change your email address, click on Main Menu at the bottom of the screen here, then go to "View/Modify Preferences." It should be self-explanatory from that point on. When you hit submit, it may not look like the change has been taken because of the error notice you get, but it will be ok.
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Response 112 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Nov 13, 2001 (11:02) * 1 lines
I will be sending out notes and be making some thank you calls. I'll have to look in to that error notice thing.
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Response 113 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Tue, Nov 13, 2001 (11:40) * 2 lines
I'll have to look in to that error notice thing.
No need. The changes go through. I'd rather have you work on that *other* thing.
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Response 114 of 355: Liz K (ekelley) * Tue, Nov 13, 2001 (12:32) * 3 lines
great! glad you got it. I've felt very guilty about not giving till now.
thanks, Karen! I'll do that right now.
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Response 115 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Apr 14, 2002 (21:13) * 21 lines
Our bandwidth is off the charts.
Our current account with our bandwidth provider allows for 50GB of monthly
data transfer.
For the month of March, our bandwidth total was 165GB, which is an
overage of 115GB.
Our bandwidth provider's pricing for bandwidth overage is $3 per GB.
Using this formula, an amount of $345 is owed on our account.
I have negotiated this down to $50 this month, but in the future we may
have to order one of these plans, probably the 100 gb or 200 gb extra,
which means we may have to do a special pledge drive in about a month,
based on our bandwidth usage.
100GB extra: $100 per month
200GB extra: $200 per month
300GB extra: $300 per month
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Response 116 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Apr 19, 2002 (08:48) * 28 lines
This is turning in to an extremely tough time financially for me, since I
invested heavily in backup systems and am facing increasing bandwidth
costs due to the popularity of our site. So I need your help now more
than ever before.
Please send donations to:
Paul Terry Walhus
The Spring
182 Clover Rd.
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
or
Click on the "Paypal Donation" link in the left column of
http://www.spring.net
Or click directly here:
Paypal Donation
If you haven't signed up for PayPal, you have to sign up here:
Sign up for
Paypal
Thanks! Your support is really needed at this time.
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Response 117 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Fri, Apr 19, 2002 (08:57) * 2 lines
I hear ya' Terry...check's in the mail.
Viva Drool!
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Response 118 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Apr 19, 2002 (09:05) * 1 lines
Thanks so much Evelyn! This will really help.
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Response 119 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 19, 2002 (14:02) * 1 lines
Thanks for linking this to Geo. You will be hearing from me, as usual. Paypal is the least painful way to do it, and you don't even need to figure out the postage!
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Response 120 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 19, 2002 (14:07) * 3 lines
Lest anyone in Geo wonder, Terry created this space we use on the internet. For ages he supported it all by himself. That became burdensome quickly when the lot of us happened along to create our own conferences and so on which required added bandwidth and server capabilities.
Contribute what you can, please! I think Geo is worth a little of your time and where-with-all. Mahalo nui loa.
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Response 121 of 355: Rob Glennie (AotearoaKiwi) * Sat, Apr 20, 2002 (04:00) * 3 lines
Hi all
What about from afar. I got some spare cash? I won't make it much because the exchange rate does not favour me (NZ$2.30 to US$1 - quite low for NZ).
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Response 122 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Apr 20, 2002 (05:57) * 1 lines
Everything, near and far, helps! Thanks Rob.
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Response 123 of 355: Julie (cascadeclimber) * Sat, Apr 20, 2002 (11:22) * 1 lines
I'd love to contribute a bit. It won't be much though. I have been helping my parents out because Dad got layed off from his job a few weeks ago for the second time.*sigh* But every little bit counts. I love Geo and we certainly can't let anything happen to it!
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Response 124 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Apr 20, 2002 (16:49) * 1 lines
Thanks a bunch Julie!
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Response 125 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Apr 20, 2002 (17:43) * 3 lines
Hang in there, students and struggling professionals. Don't feel guilty about being here - your present contributions of words is perfect. People like me will try to cover all of those who are where we were a long time ago.
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Response 126 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 3, 2002 (13:30) * 1 lines
Keep 'em coming, I'm just a wee bit shy of what I need to make this month's bandwidth payment. Paylink link at http://www.spring.net
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Response 127 of 355: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Fri, May 3, 2002 (13:34) * 1 lines
am sending check - watch your mail... :-)
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Response 128 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 3, 2002 (13:41) * 1 lines
Thank you!!!
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Response 129 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, May 16, 2002 (08:17) * 15 lines
Our Paypal "bank" account is sitting at $253.62, thanks to a generous $100 contribution from Marci yesterday, so we're about $100 short of being able to make our $320 a month bandwidth payment. So, please, keep the Paypal contributions coming in so I can make this payment before the end of the month.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?return=http%3A//www.spring.net/paypal&item_name=Contribution+to+austen%2C+drool%0D%0Aor+Spring&submit.x=80&submit.y=32&business=terry%40spring.net&item_number=3&no_intl=1&cmd=_xclick
or
Mail to:
Terry Walhus
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Thanks to everyone who's made a contribution!
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Response 130 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 17, 2002 (09:34) * 3 lines
We're 76.38 away from being able to make our bandwidth payment! Three or four $25 Paypal contributions would do it.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?return=http%3A//www.spring.net/paypal&item_name=Contribution+to+austen%2C+drool%0D%0Aor+Spring&submit.x=80&submit.y=32&business=terry%40spring.net&item_number=3&no_intl=1&cmd=_xclick
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Response 131 of 355: Kathy C (kasey) * Fri, May 17, 2002 (19:27) * 3 lines
Terry,
I've just joined PayPal and sent a contribution (I hope). If it doesn't come through please let me know. I've been lurlking long enough that I feel I'm definitely responsible for some of that huge bandwidth usage. Although, now that I think of it, it's really ODB who's responsible. Who told him to be so fascinating anyway???
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Response 132 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Fri, May 17, 2002 (20:30) * 1 lines
terry, i hope you received my donation too. please let me know if not. if you do, no need to post it here, thanks *HUGS*
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Response 133 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 17, 2002 (20:58) * 1 lines
I'll let both of you know as soon as I receive something, thanks!
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Response 134 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, May 21, 2002 (15:41) * 15 lines
I made this payment today to our bandwidth provider:
Date Service/Transaction Description Amount
Jun 16, 2002 Fast Start Server -- Ongoing fee from Jun 16, 2002 to Jul
15, 2002 295.00
Jun 16, 2002 Harddrive Upgrade -- Ongoing fee from Jun 16, 2002 to Jul
15, 2002 25.00
Previous balance: 0.00
Amount due: 320.00
So, we're good till July 15th and we have $215.33 in our account which we
can use today the July August payment. Thanks a bunch to wolf, marci and
Kathleen!
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Response 135 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jun 5, 2002 (08:08) * 14 lines
Just got this months bill for $320 for bandwidth. The overbilled us and didn't credit us for last month (which I paid), so I'm getting this straightened out.
Send contributions, as usual, to
Paul Terry Walhus
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
You can also send them to KarenR or Ann H and they'll forward them to me.
Or you can click the Paypal button and use this method, it's on the top left of http://www.spring.net
If you're buying Colin Firth DVD's, please buy them via the new link at http://www.spring.net, you'll see it midway down in the left column. There are over 30 Firth DVDs to choose from on this Amazon affiliate page.
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Response 136 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jun 5, 2002 (08:09) * 3 lines
Buy Colin Firth DVDs
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Response 137 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jun 5, 2002 (08:12) * 4 lines
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Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 138 of 355: Lisa (freddie) * Thu, Jun 6, 2002 (06:56) * 3 lines
Terry,
Could I recommend that the link for buying the CF DVD's be put onto the Drool mainpage? I must admit, I go directly to that site when I come to The Spring and I bet a lot of others do too and will miss that as an opportunity to help raise some much needed funds.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 139 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jun 6, 2002 (09:10) * 1 lines
I sent that to Karen R for possible incorporation. I wonder what the volume of dvd buying is among folks in this conference? There are about 30 Firth DVDs listed on this page. Direct contributions have always been our mainstay, a lot of the programs like amazon.com only payoff if large numbers of folks use them and we are able to meet minimum sales quotas.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 140 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jun 13, 2002 (06:24) * 23 lines
Our current account with our bandwidth provider allows for 50GB of monthly
data transfer..
For the month of May, our bandwidth total was 95GB, which is an overage
of 42GB. Their pricing for bandwidth overage is $3 per GB.
Using this formula, an amount of $126 is owed on our account.
As a courtesy, they are only going to charge our account $50 for this
overage. In the future, however, they will need to charge us for the
bandwidth we use.
We also have the option of pre-purchasing bandwidth at the following
discounted rates.
100GB extra: $100 per month
200GB extra: $200 per month
300GB extra: $300 per month
At present we owe the regular flat rate $320 plus this $50 or $370.00. I
have about $100 in the account from last months contributions so I'm
trying to raise about $270 for this month and some toward a potential
bandwidth overage next month. I'd like to prepay to 100 gb extra and save
something possibly.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 141 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 14, 2002 (10:22) * 2 lines
Thanks for the $20 paypal contribution I just received. I won't mention the name because I haven't asked the contributor. But thanks! We really need contributions right now.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 142 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jun 17, 2002 (12:57) * 10 lines
We are about $270 short of paying our bandwidth bill this month, so
this is the amount I have to raise. I'm toying around with the idea
of getting 12 people to commit to one month each during the year and
insure the bandwidth payment for that month. I'm extremely strapped
this month so I'm counting on contributions to make up our shortage in
the bank to make the payment and keep the system alive. Ideas?
Suggestions on fund raising?
Again, the Paypal link is at the bottom of the spring's main page.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 143 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (07:05) * 1 lines
Keep those contributions coming, please. Your contributions make these pages possible, click the Paypal banner on Spring.net's main page.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 144 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (10:15) * 5 lines
I've put up (and linked all over the place) a new webpage at The Bucket called The Marketplace (or should it be called The Bucket Boutique???), where there are direct links for all of Colin's tapes, DVD, related books, etc. (plus related items) to purchase from Amazon. Using these links, Spring will earn some money.
If there are other items you'd like added or would like me to create the direct link for you, just let me know.
Now, start shopping!! ;-D
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 145 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (11:00) * 1 lines
Thank you Karen. Will Spring get credit for *all* Amazon products purchased through The Marketplace? I just ordered a "non-Firth" book;-))
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 146 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (15:11) * 3 lines
If they have the Spring code in the url (which you can do yourself very easily), then Spring gets the biggest cut.
After the ASIN (the url), are a string of numbers/letters. After that backslash, get rid of the rest and put in spring-20. Hit "enter" and a new url is generated that will credit Spring. v. easy.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 147 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (15:31) * 3 lines
OK, I've changed the name and the link. We now have The Bucket's Boutique. Voila!
http://www.firth.com/boutiq.html
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 148 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (15:35) * 1 lines
Question: why is the website "firth.com" and not "colinfirth.com."?
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 149 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (15:37) * 1 lines
It's either. If you type in colinfirth.com, you will get The Bucket.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 150 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Wed, Jun 19, 2002 (15:52) * 1 lines
Whew;-)
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Response 151 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jun 25, 2002 (12:06) * 1 lines
Thanks for the accreditation link to add for Amazon. I get a lot of stuff from there and I would like Spring to get credit for it! Aloha Y'all from the South.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 152 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jun 25, 2002 (12:10) * 1 lines
What's your location today, Marci?
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 153 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jun 25, 2002 (12:14) * 1 lines
Louisville, KY
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 154 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jun 25, 2002 (12:22) * 1 lines
Wow, my old stomping grounds. I used to live on St. James Court just next to Central Park where they do the Shakespeare in the Park series in the summer. Wonder if this is still going?
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 155 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jun 25, 2002 (14:45) * 1 lines
I'll check. Lots going on here. Lots of stuff all around, too - not just hourses! I'm in downtown in the old part near Churchill Downs in a resotred row house. Loads of steps up and down to navigate will either give me coronary collapse or legs of steel.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 156 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jun 25, 2002 (14:48) * 1 lines
I'm not used to heat without breezes, and I forgot how suddenly a thunderstorm can show up. My host arrived home yesterday soaked from one such little shower that did a bit of damage in Illinios just across the border. How funny it is to be in one of those colored states in those puzzles. I am still having problems with what order which states come in even though I was navigator on the last road trip!
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 157 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jun 27, 2002 (08:23) * 7 lines
Still at least $250 short of being able to pay this months bandwidth bill and I only have a few days to go before they turn us off, please send payments via paypal (click link on http://www.spring.net ) or mail to:
Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Thanks!
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 158 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 28, 2002 (07:34) * 5 lines
Still 200+ short and only two days till our shutoff notice.
Please donate via the Paypal logo at http://www.spring.net and help keep spring, firth and austen running.
Thanks.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 159 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 28, 2002 (10:20) * 1 lines
Just got a $50 contribution, we're about $150 short now. Please keep 'em rolling in, I'm facing a serious financial pinch this month and want to keep the system up and running. Thanks!!!
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 160 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 28, 2002 (12:12) * 3 lines
Another $50 just came in, keep 'em coming and we'll make it! Thanks so much!
$100 in Paypals today so far, you are really coming through in a pinch!
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 161 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Sat, Jun 29, 2002 (11:45) * 1 lines
terry, where do we stand today?
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 162 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jun 29, 2002 (22:58) * 1 lines
We are very, very close, about $50 away from having the total I need to pay on Monday! Thanks to everyone for the very kind contributions over the past few days.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 163 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Sun, Jun 30, 2002 (18:50) * 1 lines
terry, i just sent a contribution (hope it went through)...
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 164 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jun 30, 2002 (21:44) * 1 lines
Got it! Thanks so much, it puts us over the top!
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 165 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 5, 2002 (08:30) * 29 lines
We're going to try something different for our next months pledge drive,
starting today.
The Spring is an Ebay seller. We have a good rating.
Do you have something in your garage or attic that you don't need that we
could sell on ebay? If you do, list it here in this topic, the Spring
will sell it and you'll have to ship it to the buyer. You can donate
whatever percentage you like to the Spring and keep whatever you want for
yourself, as long as you donate at least 25% of the sale of the item to
the Spring.
You can email me (terry@spring.net) with your listing if you don't want to
do it through this topic.
It will be imperative that you can ship the item to the buyer promptly and
without fail so as to preserve the Spring's good seller rating.
List your item here, in this topic and then I'll list it for sale on Ebay.
Also, after you list, send an email to mailto://terry@spring.net and let
me know your phone number and address so I can co-ordinate the shipping
and sale and payment to you.
It's an experiment, let's see if it works, maybe this will help keep us
afloat. Remember, it costs at least $320 a month just for our basic
expenses and we'd like to raise more to start doing more effective backups
and keep up with any necessary hardware/software upgrades.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 166 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 5, 2002 (10:47) * 3 lines
A few of you may have received an email from me in error, it was sent unintentionally and my apologies if you received and email with a long list, I sent a followup which was the email I intended to send out in the first place.
The email is in reference to the Ebay idea.
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Response 167 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Jul 5, 2002 (11:12) * 1 lines
I'd say that 90% of the people you emailed don't come here and wouldn't be reading your apology.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 168 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 5, 2002 (11:14) * 1 lines
I emailed them an apology.
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Response 169 of 355: Rajan Bagga (rajan1019) * Fri, Jul 5, 2002 (11:34) * 12 lines
I am B.Com(Pass) from Delhi University from India and I have done a course in
computer such as Desk top Publishing in Computer which includes
Abode Photoshoppe, Scanning , Page Maker , Msoffice, freehand, Illustrate Coreldraw.
I am now working in a SERC in India and handling Data Base work such
1. Data Entry
2. Generation of Tables
3. Obtain Charts from Data base
4. Preparing of Reports
I had also working in a Printing Offset Company India's leading
India's No. 1 Company Ajanta offset & Packaging Limited
I also know the Knowlege of Printing
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 170 of 355: Rajan Bagga (rajan1019) * Fri, Jul 5, 2002 (11:36) * 2 lines
My email address rajanbagga@vsnl.net
telephone : 91-110-5556645
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 171 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 6, 2002 (03:28) * 28 lines
Our first item for Ebay has been offered and will be listed soon.
From today's correspondence:
Yes, I have something I don't need any more. I have a
champaign mink jacket with a fox collar. I paid $1,800.
for it and I'll sell it for $800. with 30% going to The
Spring. It's tuxedo length and quite a steal at this
price. Ohhhhhhhhhhh - it's a size 10.
All Ebay donors to remain anonymous unless, of course, they give
permission to reveal their name.
This is a most kind offering.
Here's the actual ebay listing, the reserve price has been set at $800 so
it won't sell until this reserve is met. If the donor requests, I may be
able to revise the item listing.
One very important thing I forgot to mention, is that we need a photograph
if possible, or multiple photos of the item. Or at least point to a stock
photo on the net. If it's a common consumer item then there's probably
one we can find on google.com.
Title: champaign mink jacket with fox collar
Item # : The item number for your new listing is 941656544.
URL: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=941656544
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 172 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 6, 2002 (03:41) * 6 lines
I posted a photo with a disclaimer that it's only an approximation, I hope to obtain an actual photo from the donor.
Ebay recently announced that they are heavily promoting "power sellers" to find folks with items they want to sell in their communities. The Spring is my community.
So, please, did though that attic or rummage through your garage and see if there is something you no longer have any use for that could benefit our community at Drool and the Spring.
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Response 173 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 6, 2002 (03:48) * 2 lines
http://www.spring.net/mink
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Response 174 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 9, 2002 (15:47) * 3 lines
It fits me Terry, but what on earth would I do with it?
Aloha and good luck Rajan. Thank you for posting.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 175 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 9, 2002 (17:15) * 1 lines
I put a real picture of it up instead to the ones I had. Hope it sells so we can get a headstart on next months server hosting/bandwidth charge, but then again, these things may not move in summertime. No bids yets.
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Response 176 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Jul 10, 2002 (11:18) * 1 lines
I suspect that thr right buyer might like to get it now and set it aside for cooler weather. How about the cruise crowd? Alaska is good this time of year and it does get nippy onboard.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 177 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 13, 2002 (10:07) * 3 lines
The auction ended and the coat didn't sell.
I will relist it.
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Response 178 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Sat, Jul 13, 2002 (11:53) * 1 lines
is it real fur? if so, maybe folks are resisting it....is it priced too high?
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 179 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 13, 2002 (20:12) * 1 lines
It's real. But it's summer! This is, after all, a coat. But I'll keep listing it and hope that some other folks dig some things out of the garages or attics!
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Response 180 of 355: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Jul 21, 2002 (13:30) * 1 lines
how're the bills looking terry? are we doing ok this month?
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 181 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jul 21, 2002 (13:37) * 1 lines
We've got a good start. A couple of very nice contributions came in the past few days. So we're about a third of the way there to our $320 a month bill. The coat didn't sell. And there haven't been any other Ebay contributions (where folks contribute a discarded item for sale to benefit the Spring).
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 182 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 27, 2002 (11:21) * 8 lines
I have a hundred of these premium quality webcams to sell on ebay to raise money for spring.net, drool and Austen.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2042024744&rd=1
or
http://www.spring.net/ebay/webcam
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Response 183 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jul 28, 2002 (00:13) * 30 lines
NCK27CZV - TeleCam LT w/ Zoom
Notebook Videoconferencing Camera
Buy this at our Spring Ebay Auction Now!
This is an incredibly sensitive, high resolution camera ideal for security
or web cam applications. It has a built in microphone and power supply.
Slim, Lightweight Design for Portability
Proper eye contact is the key to effective videoconferencing. This is why
the NCK27CZV can be mounted anywhere on the notebook computer display with
the provided TeleClip attachment. This makes it convenient for both right
and left handed users as well as prevents problems of parallax. Further,
the NCK27CZV's unique design allows the user the ability to detach and
carry the the camera from the notebook to view documents, rooms or objects
of interest.
Varifocal Lens for wide angle, normal, or telephoto viewing of people,
places and things
Focus can be quickly adjusted from 50mm (2") to infinity on the Tamron
varifocal lens. This allows the NCK27CZV to be used for document or
close-up imaging. Also, this model can be adjusted for a wider viewing
angle for group conferencing as well as personal conferencing.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 184 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Sun, Jul 28, 2002 (01:04) * 1 lines
You might want to post this info at austen.com's Tea Room
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Response 185 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 29, 2002 (11:59) * 1 lines
Will do! Thanks.
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Response 186 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 29, 2002 (19:27) * 1 lines
What kind of price is reasonable for this camera, Terry?
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 187 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jul 30, 2002 (08:49) * 6 lines
They retail for $299. $25 is reasonable. That's a $5 markup. I'm getting them for $20.00. I'm not sure what shipping will be, depends on your location. These do require a video capture board of some kind. I'm testing a video capture board that I could sell for $10 but I don't want to list it until I know that free drivers and software are readily available on the web.
The mink coat hasn't sold and I'm relisting it for the third time. Ebay has a concept called power sellers, these are folks that find other people in their communities with rare or valuable collections of items they want to sell but they're not computer saavy themselves.
So I'm looking at the potential for being a "power seller" as a means of supporting the Spring. That's why the call for folks to dig in to their closets, attics and basements.
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Response 188 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Aug 1, 2002 (18:23) * 1 lines
The stuff I have is mostly not worth the trouble. Tropic do evil things to stored valuables. It is best to leave them in storage on the mainland. I am heartily tired of feeding my books to bugs!
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 189 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Aug 1, 2002 (18:33) * 7 lines
To everyone who bought up a storm at amazon!!!
We just got our first quarterly report from amazon and, in the one month since Le Boutique came into existence, there was a huge response from all you and Spring actually earned some money.
We really appreciate it. :)
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Response 190 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Thu, Aug 1, 2002 (20:55) * 2 lines
Karen, why don't you post again the formula for giving Spring credit when one is ordering non-Colin items.
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Response 191 of 355: Lisa (freddie) * Thu, Aug 1, 2002 (20:59) * 1 lines
Thanks Ev, that's a great idea, as I lost it and wanted to buy some other, non-CF related stuff. Karen, can you put it somewhere permanently????? :))))
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Response 192 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Thu, Aug 1, 2002 (21:58) * 1 lines
wait a sec...how do we make sure spring gets donations from amazon? i buy stuff from them--is it just via a click-thru?
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 193 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Aug 1, 2002 (22:16) * 19 lines
I have setup a page at The Bucket that has links to specific products that contain Spring's code. However, anyone can change the product url to ensure that Spring gets the maximum rebate. A general click-thru isn't worth much.
Lisa, I'll put instructions on the Boutique page for changing the url, but essentially it goes like this... very simple.
Here's the url for Tom Clancy's new book (featured on amazon's main page)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399148701/ref=pd_gw_tst_1/002-2311145-9832001
(1) In the location bar at the top of your browser, remove all the coding after the number set following the ASIN and keep the last slash.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399148701/
(2) Type in spring-20 after the slash and hit Enter. You will get a new product page that has coding for spring. In this case, I got:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399148701/spring-20/002-2311145-9832001
but it will be different for each person who does it.
BTW, items have different percentages for rebates. Books, directly linked, have by the highest reimbursement.
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Response 194 of 355: Rika (Rika) * Fri, Aug 2, 2002 (01:35) * 2 lines
I was really glad you set up the Amazon affiliate link. I had to buy a lot of books for school and I often shop through Amazon anyway.... so it was a painless way to donate.
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Response 195 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 2, 2002 (04:26) * 2 lines
The response has been wonderful and I am most grateful for this support. Amazon, Ebay and Paypal have been very helpful partners in our pledge drives. And I am most appreciative of the direct contributions that I still continue to receive. Any one who has made a contribution is most welcome to web space at firth.com, austen.com, spring.net, email address, etc. If there is anything I can do to return the favor, please contact me!
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Response 196 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Fri, Aug 2, 2002 (11:32) * 2 lines
As the holidays approach, I think we should publicize the Amazon -Spring connection more. Has it been posted on austen.com? This is an easy way to get funding for Spring.I've bought all the Colin items I wish to buy at this point, but I order other items from Amazon monthly.
About to order the Possession sound track...and in November the DVD.
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Response 197 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Aug 2, 2002 (11:36) * 1 lines
I've contacted Ann and she's just returning from vacation. She's indicated she will create a "shop" at austen.com too and will be fixing Spring's main page after she contacts Terry to get the new passwords.
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Response 198 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Aug 2, 2002 (13:47) * 3 lines
I have updated the Bucket's Boutique with instructions for DIY code changes, plus added some other items, including a couple of P&P sequels (the diary one isn't bad at all!):
http://www.firth.com/boutiq.html
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Response 199 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Aug 3, 2002 (10:54) * 1 lines
Thanks, all. I just bought three books as birthday presents but did not know the formula. Next time, Spring will get the credit!
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Response 200 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Sat, Aug 3, 2002 (10:56) * 1 lines
Cancel them and I will give you the codes.
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Response 201 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Aug 4, 2002 (00:34) * 1 lines
OK thanks! I got notice of shipment of one today and one of the others is from a second hand dealer since it is out of print. However, the third might be redeemable. Not to worry; I will be buying a lot of books shortly. *;) More on that later.
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Response 202 of 355: Liz K (ekelley) * Sun, Aug 4, 2002 (15:07) * 1 lines
Karen, could you e-mail me a listing of them as well? Thanks!
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Response 203 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Sun, Aug 4, 2002 (15:55) * 1 lines
Liz, email you what????? I haven't a clue.
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Response 204 of 355: Liz K (ekelley) * Sun, Aug 4, 2002 (23:31) * 1 lines
aren't there certain urls that one can go through to amazon so that spring gets a percentage of the purchase? or did i totally misunderstand that previous string of messages?
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Response 205 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Mon, Aug 5, 2002 (00:15) * 7 lines
Yes, there's the general click-thru icon on the bottom of every topic here. I also have a page up at The Bucket, called The Boutique, which has all sorts of Firth and other items, specially listed so that you can click through on those. When you have a direct link (which you can make yourself if I don't have the item listed), then the rebate percentage is higher.
Here's the Bucket page which explains it all:
http://www.firth.com/boutiq.html
especially the DIY section at the bottom. If you need assistance, just let me know. I'd be glad to help out.
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Response 206 of 355: Liz K (ekelley) * Tue, Aug 6, 2002 (20:07) * 1 lines
great. Thank you!
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Response 207 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Aug 7, 2002 (08:24) * 5 lines
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Response 208 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Aug 7, 2002 (08:27) * 1 lines
The above link is for our UK friends who want to buy books on Amazon and allow their purchases to help the Spring, firth.com and austen.com with the expenses of running the site. So if you're in Great Britain, this is for you!
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Response 209 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 9, 2002 (10:54) * 5 lines
Will micropayments work here?
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tlkthrd=1696
is a reference to a site doing this?
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Response 210 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (08:33) * 15 lines
I received a current bill for $320 for our bandwidth provider due by the end of the month and I ordered a new server which will cost $1400, I have $750 in the kitty so I am about $970 short. I need to come up with all of this before the end of the month. The purpose of the new server is for immediate backup (we have one now) and to provide a safety net if we start incurring heavy bandwidth charges and need to change providers. That way, we'll have our own hardware ready to startup at a new location. The present server, which we rent and do not own, costs $320 a month and has 70 gb of disk space. The new server, which I have $750 set aside for, will have 320 gb of disk space, dual Pentium 1000 processors, RAID redundancy and 512 mb ram (one memory stick with room for more).
Owning a server will allow me to shop around locally for a much better monthly deal and we'll have much more security in that we own the hardware.
Please send donations to:
Paul Terry Walhus
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
Or use the paypal link on the main page at http://www.spring.net
Thanks!!!
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Response 211 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (12:54) * 2 lines
Terry, I can make a donation on payday (the 1st) due to some current unforeseen circumstances. Thanks for your efforts on keeping this place going.
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Response 212 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (13:49) * 1 lines
Thanks wolfie. I got $25 in so far today via Paypal. So I'm sending $775 to the vendor that's building the system and he'll hold it till I pay the rest. So that's $625 more I need to raise for the system and $320 for the months bandwidth charge. That $750 was all I had so I'm hoping for some contributions to cover the rest!
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Response 213 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (14:18) * 5 lines
Why don't you raise the money first and then buy the system.
The bandwith charge is a constant.
Just a thought....
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Response 214 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (14:22) * 3 lines
I've been putting this off for so long, I don't like living dangerously and not having a decent backup if our rented system went down. At least I am able to get $750 in to the hands of the vendor that's building it today. The bandwidth charge varies, $320 is the *minimum* and we are starting to get bills for extra bandwidth. I want to be able to recover and switch over quickly if we get a bill for bandwidth that we can't afford or if something happens to our server.
Right now, we have no backup and I'm very uncomfortable with this. I don't want to end up in the position of having to start all over from scratch and losing all our content! That would not be good.
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Response 215 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (14:38) * 1 lines
I quite agree with Evelyn. You pay your bills first and then save for the extras.
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Response 216 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (18:31) * 7 lines
I agree we need to pay our bandwidth bill and that will be the next
expenditure. But I feel like it is essential we have a backup strategy in
case this server is attacked or crashes. And the new server has redundant
hard drives, something that would be cost prohibitive in a rental server
like we currently have. If the system went down now, there would be no
way to get back up and running quickly, it would take a week or more and
we would lose most of our content. I like the idea of having a safety net!
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Response 217 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (18:35) * 19 lines
This is the server:
And this is the quote (not including a video card):
Next Basic System............................$1253.00
P3tdde
SC822I-300LP case
Dual cpus Intel P3 1000
512mb pc133 sdram
FD
Slim cd rom
Dual IBM 120 mb gb 7200rpm
Assembly
Insurance and handling........................$17.00
Grand total with TX sales tax..............$1374.78
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Response 218 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (18:41) * 9 lines
This new system comes with two 120 gb IBM drives and I already have two
120 gb IBM drives. And it has room for two more. This would give us 960
gb storage with room for 240 gb more or a total of 1200 gb. We could
partition this in to two "mirrors" so if the main drive crashed or was
corrupted the mirror would be intact. Right now we have only a 40 gb and
a 20 gb drive and we are rapidly running out of space. I am spending a
lot of time daily cleaning up files and trying to keep the system from
filling up. It also has two processors which would make it substantially
faster.
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Response 219 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (18:58) * 88 lines
The motherboard:
Target Segment High-end desktop, workstation, or internet applications
Form Factor ATX with PC99 color-coded double-deck I/O
Size: 11.6" x 11.2" (W x H)
Processor Support Dual or single Intel 370-pin Pentium III 1.40GHz-500MHz
processors
Chipset VIA Apollo Pro 266T
Front Side Bus 133/100MHz
Memory Up to 4 GB of PC133 SDRAM memory
I/O Expansion 5 32-bit 33MHz PCI bus mastering slots
1 4xAGP Pro
1 ACR
Onboard Devices Dual Ultra DMA (UDMA/100)
Promise ATA/100 onboard RAID 0, 1, 0+1
Burst data transfer rate supports UDMA Mode 5, PIO Mode 4, ATAPI
Intel 82559 Ethernet controller onboard
Up to Four USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports
PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
Two fast UART 16550 compatible serial ports
One ECP/EPP parallel port
One Infrared header
One floppy port
Chassis Compatibility ATX chassis
Fits SC822, SC811 chassis
PC Health Monitoring Onboard voltage monitors for CPU core, +2.5V, +3.3V,
+ 5V and + 12V Fan status monitor
CPU/chassis temperature monitoring
CPU fan auto-off in sleep mode
CPU overheat LED header
LED and control for chassis intrusion detection
System resource alert
Support for system management software
Auto-switching voltage regulator for CPU core, up to 20A of current
Wake-on-LAN allows for remote network management and configuration of the
PC, even in off-hours when the PC is turned off. This reduces the
complexity of managing the network.
Onboard auto-switching power regulator supports CPU core voltages from 1.3
~ 3.5 volts
Three tachometer fan connectors ( CPU, one chassis fan connector and one
thermal control overheat fan connector)
Keyboard wake-up from Soft-Off
Overheat LED indication connector
CPU frequency settings in BIOS setup
Power-up mode control upon recovery from AC power loss
Overheat backup fan connector for CPU protection
BIOS Features Supports ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)
and APM (Advanced Power Management)
Slow blinking LED for Sleep State indicator
Main switch override mechanism. Power-up mode control upon recovery from
AC power loss
PC Health Monitoring protects your system from problems even before they
occur.
DMI support
ACPI/APM power management
RTC (Real-Time Clock) wakeup
External modem remote ring-on when system is in Soft-Off state
BIOS rescue hot keys for rescuing BIOS chip from flash failure
Hardware BIOS virus protection
Award 2Mb Flash ROM
Other Features ACPI/APM power management
Internal/external modem ring-on
Control of power-on mode for recovery from AC power loss
One WOL (Wake-On-LAN) connector
One chassis intrusion connector
Standard Retail Package One SUPER P3TDDE mainboard
One three-ended 40-pin IDE ribbon cable
One floppy ribbon cable
Two CPU cooling fans
One backpanel I/O shield
One BIOS/drivers CD
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Response 220 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Aug 23, 2002 (22:34) * 1 lines
Wow!!!
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Response 221 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Aug 24, 2002 (09:03) * 15 lines
Just in. $200 from geo.
Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
Our monthly rental is covered.
I have a $750 deposit in on the new server.
And I'll be able to make another $150 payment toward the new server.
So we'll be up to $900 on the server with another $500 to go, he'll ship
it as soon as I get this payment in to him.
We're very close to having a powerful server that will someday be the
future of Spring, Firth and Austen. It's exciting as we draw nearer.
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Response 222 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 26, 2002 (09:51) * 2 lines
Another $50 in. That's $275 total, we're getting closer to the new server. Keep 'em coming, please!
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Response 223 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 26, 2002 (13:48) * 9 lines
I have put down $1,000 total on the server now and have a 412.66 balance due on the new server. We're very close indeed.
To contribute, just go to Spring's main page at http://www.spring.net and click on the Paypal link. Or mail checks to:
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
I am very excited about having a "safety net" for this community, call it lifeboat or whatever, it will give us a comfort zone that we have never had before. I believe this will benefit us all.
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Response 224 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Aug 27, 2002 (09:25) * 14 lines
I have received $275 in contributions in the current effort so far. This almost covers our monthly rental payment. I'm making up the difference. So I could still use some help here to get this project off the ground.
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
or
Paypal on http://www.spring.net
or
http://www.spring.net/paypal
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Response 225 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Sep 6, 2002 (14:03) * 11 lines
I made up the difference in the monthly server rent. I'm still hoping some folks can chip in on the new server, we're at 85% disk space utilization on our prsent server and climbing rapidly. I'd at least like to get things backed up and have a reserve in the ready in case our only current server goes down.
Paypal on http://www.spring.net
or by mail:
The Spring
182 Clover Rd
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
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Response 226 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (04:54) * 8 lines
Our discussion forums were "down" yesterday for about an hour because we exceed our "license limit" for the software we use called Yapp. I called and got an extension from Kaylene, maintainer of the software. This occurred around 5 pm yesterday, give or take.
The good news is that we had over 15,000 log ins in a 24 hour period, that's a lot! The flip side of this is that to get an unlimited license would cost us another $2300.
The new server I'm working on his higher priority than this right now, because we need more hard drive capacity and better performance. But the extended license is something to keep in mind as we grow and have more folks logging in. It may be time to offer "subscriptions" to those who want expanded services from spring.net such as email, web space, and access to private forums. We'll always be free, but we may need to offer more services in order to support our operations.
As always, I'm grateful for all the kind contributions via our Paypal link and though the mail. Keep 'em coming as every bit helps toward maintaining and expanding this web community of ours. Thanks all!
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Response 227 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (04:58) * 21 lines
From Kaylene:
I reset the license file so that it would work again. This means that
your site received more than 15000 hits in a 24 hour period. When you
upgrade to a new server you should probaby upgrade to an unlimited
license.
Right now you have paid for a license which is normally 64 unix users
and and average of 6400 hits per day. Due to your mostly web usage I
have it implemented this as at most 15,000 hits per day. You really
should upgrade to an unlimited use license. It looks like Friday
September 20 you got 11,003 hits, and then today you got more than
15000. You are now consistently averaging more that 6400 hits per day.
You currently have a License worth $3,700.00. If you want to upgrade
your license without adding additional hours of support it will costs
$6,000 - $3,700 = $2,300.00. I would suggest you start saving for this.
I did not increase the number of hits beyound 15000 hits per day. The
next time you go above that limit you will experience this same problem
again.
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Response 228 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (08:51) * 15 lines
To contribute:
http://www.spring.net/paypal
or by mail:
The Spring
182 Clover Road
Cedar Creek, TX 78612
What will you contributions go toward?
At present, toward a new server that will function as a backup and possible replacement for our current server if it passes muster. It will have 720 gb of hard drive storage as compared to our present 70 gb (which is 86% full!).
Thanks so much to all those who have contributed so far this month!
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Response 229 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (11:42) * 8 lines
Hmmmmm. Can I throw in a word that might be controversial...the "R" word.
"Restricted" meaning only donors would be able to log on.
Is that ever done on some sights?
How many donors do we have???
With 15,000 hits over 24 hrs.
Looks like a few people are paying for others;-)
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Response 230 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (11:48) * 8 lines
I don't want to keep people out unless this is the consensus of the community.
Specific conferences can be limited to those on a user list. I'd need more input on
this from Karen et al before making any kind of move like this. The Spring gets
over a million hits a month, as does austen.com and firth.com.
We do get supported by a faithful few, and I'd like to see others who are able make
whatever contribution they are able. Even if it's $10, $20, $50 a year.
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Response 231 of 355: Rika (Rika) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (13:05) * 2 lines
Terry, you can use the web log data to look at hit rates by conference, right? Do you have a feel, on a conference-by-conference basis, for who's consuming the resources vs. who's contributing?
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Response 232 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (13:11) * 3 lines
Sounds like it's time for me to get my annual fundraiser going.
Rika, Drool is the conference responsible for the vast majority of the hits. The rest is insignificant. Usage on The Bucket/firth.com and austen.com doesn't affect the license, as they don't use the Yapp software. However, I've never been able to see storage and processor stats that combine all of Terry's domains.
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Response 233 of 355: Rika (Rika) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (16:48) * 2 lines
Okay, another question. What constitutes a hit on Yapp? Is it the same as a page hit on a web server, or are they counted differently?
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Response 234 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (16:59) * 1 lines
Same thing.
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Response 235 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (17:54) * 1 lines
I believe they're the same, but I do have a question in to Kaylene about what her definition is, is it a login or is it any visit regardless of whether the person logs in or not. I'm waiting to hear from her on this.
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Response 236 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (22:53) * 5 lines
"Hits are defined as anytime a page is displayed on a web machine"
Kaylene
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Response 237 of 355: Rika (Rika) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (23:10) * 6 lines
If it's counted the same as ordinary page hits, then it wouldn't be related to whether or not someone logged in (though the login, I suppose, might generate an extra hit). It would have to do with the number of page requests someone made, and that could be several per visit to a conference. So I would think if I visited Drool through the main page, read the new messages in four topics, and posted twice, that would be at least seven hits.
One reason I'm asking these questions is because I've been thinking about the fund raising efforts. Speaking as someone who's fairly new here and who's enjoying it, I'd like to give my fair share to support Drool, and in fact I have contributed twice in the three months that I've been here. I'm even willing to give more than my fair share, since I recognize that some people are going to choose to take a free ride if they have the opportunity. But I haven't a clue what a fair share would be, because I don't have good information on the total monthly costs or on the number of people who hang out here.
I realize that counting the number of unique lurkers is difficult if not impossible (unles Yapp creates cookies for that purpose and logs statistics), but I think it would be beneficial to try to quantify both the size of the community and the size of the financial obligation we jointly incur to whatever extent is possible.
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Response 238 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (23:24) * 6 lines
Our base fixed cost is $320 per month for server rent.
Hardware is another cost which varies, the machine I'm putting together is running about $1400 for the base machine and $900 for the hard drives. I already mentioned the Yapp software costs (licensing). Karen and I both put a lot of our time in to this project, as do Marcia and several other authors (Ann Haker to name one). But these costs haven't been compensated to date. It's rare that we bring in enough in a given month to cover all our costs, but what we do get is vital and there is never any extra or any "profit" per se.
I don't know about the lurker thing, but I know the number is huge according to our web stats, see http://www.spring.net/webtrends and you'll get some clues. As to the size of the community, last time I looked there were about 1,000 unique people in the drool conference. That was 4-5 months ago, we've gained quite a bit since then.
I think I have about 400 email addresses that are pretty reliable for users of the system.
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Response 239 of 355: Rika (Rika) * Tue, Sep 24, 2002 (23:28) * 3 lines
That's a start....
I may e-mail you about this.
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Response 240 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Sep 25, 2002 (08:16) * 1 lines
One approach might be to set up a "members only" area with discussions, content etc that were available to our contributors and subscribers. We could admit, naturally, everyone who's made significant contributions by default and create a "subscription" model where folks paid $5 a month or $50 a year for a username and password. Subscribers/contributors could also be offered premium email addresses such as mandy@firth.com or jane@austen.com, etc., web space on the new server, and we could produce a quarterly printed newsletter. Just ideas, I'm not saying I'm going to implement this yet. Just looking for feedback.
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Response 241 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Wed, Sep 25, 2002 (13:10) * 9 lines
(Terry) Just ideas, I'm not saying I'm going to implement this yet. Just looking for feedback.
All good potential good ideas. Which would cover the monthly expenses.
And eliminate the end of the month money crunch.
Of course it all depends on the response of the immininet fund drive , doesn't it? I mean, if we get a good enough response, things might go on as is.
But 15,000 hits means a whole lot of folks are coming on free.
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Response 242 of 355: Lizza (Lizzajaneway) * Wed, Sep 25, 2002 (14:23) * 2 lines
I'll second the proposals / ideas.
we are always going to get "freeloaders" but I guess we should try and limit them;-)
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Response 243 of 355: Rika (Rika) * Wed, Sep 25, 2002 (15:08) * 4 lines
I like the idea of having some "premium" features/content for subscribers. It's important to offer at least some access to content for free, because the way people get hooked is by being able to visit and read and find out what goes on before they have to make a commitment.
A possible first step would be (if Yapp supports this) to require people to register and get a Drool user name in order to read some of the conferences. A registration requirement is a barrier, but only a small one, and it would give us a feeling for who's out there.
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Response 244 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Sep 25, 2002 (15:57) * 1 lines
Another idea, and *all* of these ideas really need Karen's input, would be to set up a subscribers only area on the website, where subscribers could get premium content and information. Kind of like the news services do, they let you have the bulk of the news but save long premium stories for subscribers only areas. It's easy to set up a conference that is private and the host determines who gets access by maintaining a "ulist" or list of users. We've had conferences like these in the past. And we have a few now, you don't see them because they're private.
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Response 245 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Wed, Sep 25, 2002 (17:43) * 6 lines
(Terry)And we have a few now, you don't see them because they're private.
Ah Ha...Terry.You mean as a long time donor, I'm not welcomed at all the conferences;-)
Shutting me out:-((((
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Response 246 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Sep 25, 2002 (18:59) * 1 lines
Well, not exactly, the private conferences have *nothing* to do with drool, Firth, Austen or any of the things that probably interest you. And they're very inactive right now. I'm talking about creating something that would appeal to the interests of those actively supporting and creating the major content areas here such as Firth, Austen and Fan Fiction.
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Response 247 of 355: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Tue, Oct 1, 2002 (18:59) * 2 lines
create a "subscription" model where folks paid $5 a month or $50 a year for a username and password
this sounds like a great idea to me :-)
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Response 248 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Oct 5, 2002 (13:07) * 1 lines
Oh dear. Most of my devout readers and posters (minimal by Drool's standards) are second or third world people or young students who are putting themselves through college. It would mean the end of Geo to make them pay for a subscription!
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Response 249 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Sat, Oct 5, 2002 (21:24) * 4 lines
i don't know about a subscription either. a lot of us volunteer our spare time to
make spring what it is today.....
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Response 250 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (10:00) * 9 lines
I would never prevent someone from getting to the main areas of the Spring, like
Geo. This is more in reference to getting to special subscriber only areas, and if
someone was in one of the categories you describe, they could easily get a "comp"
subscription, or complimentary subscription. Anyone who was a "devout poster" would
automatically get a subscription. There will be no end to Geo! That would be
unthinkable.
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Response 251 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (10:47) * 1 lines
*whew*
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Response 252 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (10:55) * 1 lines
Terry - Have you run the Webtrends report? Several people have indicated they'd like to see that stats.
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Response 253 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (12:27) * 8 lines
I have published the webtrends report but my license expires on the 15th, you need an account to see but I'll give a username and password to anyone who wants one.
The url is http://video.wholetech.com:1099
If anyone wants to login, use this generic account:
username: stats
password stats
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Response 254 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (12:59) * 4 lines
These reports will only be abailable until the 15th of this month, when our Webtrends license expires. So download whatever stats you need to your local machine, or, KarenR, feel free to save them on our webserver.
This reports are insancely complete., I wish I could afford this software but it's way out of our budget!
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Response 255 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (13:14) * 12 lines
Personally I want to commend Terry for looking for ways to increase the funding.
He gets to pay the bills, after all.I am sure he doesn't like to go out every month requesting funds.
Wolfie we all appreciate all the effort you put in...as well as Marcia.
Money couldn't pay for what you both do for Spring.
I want to keep Spring free too...but as we know, it is public for viewing, but privately funded.
And when there are 15,000 hits in one day(???)and only an infinitismal percent of those give any money, I feel there is something wrong with this picture.
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Response 256 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Sun, Oct 6, 2002 (13:28) * 1 lines
The Annual Drool Fundraiser will kickoff tomorrow. I've made arrangements for a cheque collection point in the UK and if there are others who can have PayPal in other countries, let me know.
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Response 257 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Mon, Oct 7, 2002 (14:06) * 15 lines
Drool is kicking off its Annual Fund-Raising Drive.
Spring needs money in order to operate and we appreciate whatever people can send to help keep this place online every single day of the week. For this year's campaign, I'm hoping that the contributions will cover our operating expenses through the end of the year. As Terry has explained in the past, it costs approximately $300 a month to run Spring, which includes the conferences, The Bucket (firth.com) and austen.com, home to the Derbyshire Writers' Guild. Also, when we exceed our contractual allowance for bandwidth, there are variable charges for the excess.
From our usage statistics, we all know Drool is very popular but is financially supported by a small fraction of those who visit. Whether you have registered or read the boards in a public mode, it costs Spring money. We prefer to keep Drool open to the public and can only do so through your generosity and giving whatever you can to keep this wonderful place open.
This year, I've made arrangements with Lizza in the UK to collect cheques, which she can then send on to me. For other countries, we have alternatives that have worked fine in the past.
Our Drool boards are a source of enjoyment for many people, participants and lurkers alike. So if you'd like to make a contribution, please contact me at nomdedrool@yahoo.com for information, as no addresses will be posted on this board.
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Response 258 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Mon, Oct 7, 2002 (16:44) * 3 lines
Cute , boss.Love the "Mom send $$$"LOL.
Think Colin could join in with a PSA for Spring?
Thanks Lizza for being the UK Money Bag;-) (no pun intended)
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Response 259 of 355: Lizza (Lizzajaneway) * Mon, Oct 7, 2002 (17:48) * 1 lines
None taken;-)
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Response 260 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Mon, Oct 7, 2002 (19:26) * 1 lines
karen, you are so creative! luv the pics!!!
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Response 261 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Oct 9, 2002 (20:04) * 1 lines
Terry, FTP is still not possible to Geo's hosts and files are having to be accessed from other net sources. For John's research this is NOT acceptable. Please help!
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Response 262 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (06:11) * 1 lines
I'll fix this today, email me and I'll respond right away with some tests. I need some more detailed information from you.
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Response 263 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (07:48) * 5 lines
I spent quite a bit of time on this and set up an automated procedure to reset your file permissions. Let's continue this discussion in topic 25 of the unix conference though, as it's more related to unix file permissions than to the current pledge drive.
Got a $50 contrib last night. Thanks!
I won't mention or publish any contributors publicly unless otherwise requested by the donor. One of our recent contributors asked for, and received a firth.com email address and webspace. Remember, if you contribute, there are all kinds of "perks"; all you have to do is ask if you've been a contributor.
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Response 264 of 355: Evelyn Boake (lafn) * Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (10:30) * 3 lines
(Terry) One of our recent contributors asked for, and received a firth.com email address and webspace. Remember, if you contribute, there are all kinds of "perks"; all you have to do is ask if you've been a contributor.
Fantastic, Terry.
Can you list the perks...or are they a secret;-)
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Response 265 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (17:22) * 1 lines
The primary ones are email and webspace and private conferences (if any one wants them as a group). Also, there's "shell access" for the more unix saavy which gives you lightning fast text only access to the conferences. You have "live" phone support from me whenever you need it. I'll think of more.
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Response 266 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (17:55) * 1 lines
You'd better cost some of those options out.
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Response 267 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (21:03) * 1 lines
Email and webspace won't cost much. Same with private conferences. Shell access is already enabled and uses less system resources than the web. A unix system like ours handles additional options pretty well. We could support a couple of thousand web/email/shell users pretty easily and we're only supporting a handful now.
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Response 268 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Oct 10, 2002 (23:28) * 1 lines
I know email doesn't.
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Response 269 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 11, 2002 (09:28) * 1 lines
The only thing that hits us hard is disk space usage, and I'm building a solution for that and increasing vigilence in cleaning up what we have now (eg. compressing the logs more). So I would qualify supporting those kinds of numbers only if we limited personal disk space, but that wouldn't be as much of an issue with the new system.
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Response 270 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Fri, Oct 11, 2002 (11:50) * 7 lines
I would strongly suggest that those perks have a quantified amount attached.
The email addy is one many Firth fans would covet....I would put say a minimum of $50. on that. Hey...that's less than 50 cents a day for Drool.
That's ludicrous.
The same with the other perks...(some of which I don't even know what they are;-)
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Response 271 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 11, 2002 (13:47) * 1 lines
Sounds good, Evelyn.
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Response 272 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 14, 2002 (00:47) * 1 lines
I don't even remember how to access my spring.net email since I lost the ability to login on telnet. I'll have to learn it all over again, soon!
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Response 273 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 14, 2002 (12:02) * 1 lines
You can use pop mail or ssh and use pine or elm.
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Response 274 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Oct 18, 2002 (17:16) * 17 lines
2002 Fund Raising Status!!
I want to thank all the wonderful people who have come forward, contacted me about making donations, and followed through with checks, money orders or PayPal transfers. So far we've collected $440, slightly less than half of our goal from the following:
What truly amazes me is that about a third of that amount is from our wonderful community of lurkers, who tell me how much they love it here at Drool and that it has become a fixture in their day. With the number of hits we get here, I know it is a daily *must visit* for many more who rely on Drool for current information on Colin and for the lively banter amongst die-hard Firthettes, with nothing better to do than paint their nails a deep crimson.
So, let's keep this fund drive rolling and I hope to hear from more of you soon. If you're in another country and want to make a contribution, please email me at nomdedrool@yahoo.com to discuss your options. Don't be among the other noncontributors in our Hall of Shame:
BTW, Evelyn, where's your check? *tap tap*
BTW2, if you haven't received an email from me, then I haven't received your contribution or notice of it.
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Response 275 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Fri, Oct 18, 2002 (22:25) * 1 lines
*LAUGH* karen, you crack me up!! love the graphics!!!!!
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Response 276 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Sun, Oct 20, 2002 (19:48) * 4 lines
Annual Fund Raising Newsflash for Australian Springites
We're making it easier and easier to make international donations. For those who haven't availed themselves of PayPal, we now have new Country Rep for Australia. Jane Scott has volunteered to collect funds on our behalf and will be able to transmit them to us when this drive is through. You may contact her directly at gaea@mailcity.com for her mailing address or other questions.
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Response 277 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Sun, Oct 20, 2002 (20:17) * 7 lines
THANKS, KAREN...
FOR ORGANIZING THIS FUNDRAISING.
BUT FOR YOU, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE
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Response 278 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 20, 2002 (20:42) * 5 lines
How creative Droolians are ! Evelyn, I love your Thanx graphics. I may just borrow them...
Karen outdoes us all. She is sooooooo devoted and so good at what she does. Evelyn's right.
*Applause*
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Response 279 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Oct 20, 2002 (20:42) * 1 lines
I expect to get a paypal to you shortly, Terry..... again!
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Response 280 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Oct 20, 2002 (23:49) * 1 lines
thank you!
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Response 281 of 355: Lizza (Lizzajaneway) * Mon, Oct 21, 2002 (03:35) * 1 lines
You are right Evelyn, Karen is "The Bees Knees!!!"
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Response 282 of 355: Ann (Ann) * Thu, Oct 24, 2002 (20:55) * 1 lines
I'm about to send out a bunch of checks for $640 from the folks at Austen.com. They've also donated approximately $300 by Paypal.
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Response 283 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Thu, Oct 24, 2002 (21:17) * 2 lines
That's wonderful Ann.Congrats...Thanks for all your efforts.
I am overwhelmed at the tremendous support.
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Response 284 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 25, 2002 (04:18) * 2 lines
That's wonderful, what a great group of folks! This is indeed, as Evelyn
says, overwhelming. Thank you so much!
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Response 285 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Oct 25, 2002 (11:36) * 10 lines
Here they are!
These donors have been very generous in supporting Spring and helping us reach our goal. However, there are still pledges outstanding and, if I have not personally emailed you, then I haven't received it or notice of it. Please keep those donations coming in. If you don't know how to do so, contact me at nomdedrool@yahoo.com.
Even Colin knows a good thing when he sees it!
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Response 286 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Oct 31, 2002 (12:03) * 19 lines
Latest inductee to the Drool Hall of Shame
This individual took the time from his very important celebrity schedule to write and say he was making a donation to Drool,
his favorite fan club. But weeks later, a check has yet to arrive. Much as I hate to do this to such a talented guy and
obviously busy person, I feel I must.
As the fund-raising drive nears an end (not yet though as I'm waiting for some stragglers), I want to remind people it is not
too late to show your appreciation for Drool by making a donation. Every little bit helps insure that Terry will not have to
make his monthly appeals or when his property taxes are due. ;-)
If I have not personally thanked you by email, then I haven't received your donation or notification of it from Terry. Please
contact me at nomdedrool@yahoo.com for instructions or addresses. In addition, I can take Paypal donations myself at my other
email address which can expedite things.
Thanks again to everyone for their continuing generosity.
BTW, this was your Halloween trick. ;-)
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Response 287 of 355: lindak (lindak) * Thu, Oct 31, 2002 (12:29) * 3 lines
(Karen)BTW, this was your Halloween trick. ;-)
Does this mean a treat is in store, later, perhaps?
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Response 288 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Nov 7, 2002 (12:50) * 1 lines
We've raised enough for two full payments at least.
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Response 289 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Thu, Nov 28, 2002 (23:42) * 11 lines
On Thanksgiving, it seems very appropriate to close out the 2002 Fund Raiser and give one more round of thanks to all those who have so generously given their support to Drool. Here's the latest batch of Drool Darlings:
Together, with these fine people listed below, Drool has raised $2,200 this year. With the $880 raised by austen.com's latest fund-raising drive, this should keep Spring in operation all the way through June of next year. Excellent results and very much appreciated.
Thank you so much. *smooch*
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Response 290 of 355: Rika (Rika) * Thu, Nov 28, 2002 (23:55) * 1 lines
What a terrific result! Thanks, Karen, for doing such a great job of coordinating the campaign.
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Response 291 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Fri, Nov 29, 2002 (09:40) * 2 lines
Thanks, Boss.
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Response 292 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Nov 29, 2002 (13:02) * 1 lines
Yes thank you Karen!.
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Response 293 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Sat, Nov 30, 2002 (12:58) * 1 lines
Evelyn, I love your smooching smileys!
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Response 294 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Sat, Nov 30, 2002 (13:09) * 1 lines
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Response 295 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Sat, Nov 30, 2002 (13:29) * 6 lines
(Sorry for the MIA message...)
Thank you, Wolfie...
You know what they say..."A picture says...."
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Response 296 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Mon, Dec 2, 2002 (14:07) * 3 lines
The *complete* list (hopefully!) and alphabetized for your reading pleasure:
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Response 297 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Mon, Dec 2, 2002 (14:35) * 8 lines
Pretty impressive.
A Great Big Smooch
To all who are keeping Drool alive and banner-free.
Thanks Karen and Terry
PS We sure have lotta Kathys!
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Response 298 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Dec 11, 2002 (11:56) * 33 lines
Thanks, in part, to the contributions received though our pledge drive I
was able to ship a new server off to our hosting facility yesterday.
It's a Supermicro server with twin PIII 933 MHz processors, 512 mb ram,
720 gbs of hard drive space or six 120 gb hard drives. We presently have
a 40 gb and a 30 gb drive or 70 gigabytes. The new server is a 2U
rackmount box with twin ethernet connections, 2 pci slots and an agp slot.
It has hardware RAID for data security and backup.
It should arrive at our hosting facility next Tuesday and it will take
about two weeks to get it up and running and get all our data moved from
this system to the new system. I'm hoping we can put it online on January
1st. All the data from the old system will be archived on the new system
and I may even purchase the old drives from the hosting company and put
them on a shelf for an emergency although the new system will have plenty
of built in safeguards.
I've been testing it for two months and it should be fairly stable. I was
talking to Ann Haker yesterday, and the new administration system we're
going to install on it will be much more useful for content people like
her and Karen. We're installing something called EZ Admin which gives
authors far more control over their web sites and allows them the ability
to create their own users and manage things more effectively.
One giant step for the Spring, thanks to everyones super efforts!
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Response 299 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 12, 2002 (14:03) * 3 lines
Generous Geoites are unknown to mebutI suspect it is only me plusa few others. My audience/posters are students mostly from far poorer countries than the North American ones. *sigh* but I did get a post by a grateful mom whose son had used Geo to research a paper for school. That was very nice!
Terry, I'll send my donation as soon as I get home and can get the banking figured out. Someone NOT of my acquaintance is charging things to my debit card on AOL. *fume*
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Response 300 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Dec 12, 2002 (18:54) * 3 lines
That's debit card thing sounds like identity theft. Not cool!
Thanks for the thoughts.
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Response 301 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Dec 12, 2002 (19:21) * 1 lines
Not cool at all. It happened to my son. As soon as I get back to Hilo I will have the card replaced with a new one.
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Response 302 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 21, 2003 (00:21) * 1 lines
You should have heard from me via PayPal today, Terry.
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Response 303 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Mar 30, 2003 (11:34) * 1 lines
I did! Thank you so much!!!
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Response 304 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 1, 2003 (01:31) * 1 lines
Happy to be able to assist!
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Response 305 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 7, 2003 (17:29) * 8 lines
To all of Spring's supporters.
On Spring's main page there's a new item labeled " ads by
google".
If you click on these ads, it will help pay our bills.
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Response 306 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 7, 2003 (17:38) * 6 lines
Goodle Ad Revenue partway through the first day was very good, although
google does not allow me to discuss specific stats. But thanks for your
support and please keep on clicking.
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Response 307 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Jul 11, 2003 (17:11) * 1 lines
Thanks for the heads up. I'll go straigh away!
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Response 308 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jul 12, 2003 (11:25) * 5 lines
We've been in a steady decline since day one. But I'm figuring out wayxs
to boost traffic through the other websites, expecially
http://adsenses.com which is also http://www.adsensible.com.
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Response 309 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Jul 28, 2003 (11:48) * 1 lines
It seems to go through seasonal fluctuations - at least as far as Geo is concerned. Summer comes and everyone goes outdoors on vacations or picnics. When school and the fall season begins, they pick up again.
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Response 310 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 28, 2003 (17:57) * 1 lines
That will be good.
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Response 311 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 28, 2003 (18:25) * 2 lines
... when things pick up. That will be good. Because we're in a long dry
spell now.
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Response 312 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Jul 29, 2003 (14:08) * 1 lines
Over the several years I have been active here both in Drool and on the rest of Spring, summer is the worst time for hits. Hang in there. Things will pick up with the cooler wetter weather coming.
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Response 313 of 355: Wolf (wolf) * Mon, Aug 4, 2003 (23:24) * 1 lines
i owe a good old donation (maybe when my pay raise comes in at the end of the month)
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Response 314 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Aug 9, 2003 (23:12) * 14 lines
I need help picking which colored google ad is the most pleasing.
Will you please help me out by visiting this page and clicking on the ad
which has the color scheme that you find to be most pleasing?
You would make my day and make me very, very happy if you would do this,
please.
http://www.spring.net/adsense
Just click on the ad with the color scheme you find most pleasing and I'll
announce the results based on my page stats.
Thanks in advance for helping with this!
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Response 315 of 355: Evelyn (lafn) * Sun, Aug 10, 2003 (10:01) * 1 lines
Go Raspberry Smoothie
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Response 316 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Sun, Aug 10, 2003 (10:38) * 1 lines
Put the Droolback3 background on your test page, Terry, then it would be easier to choose.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 317 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 11, 2003 (09:35) * 6 lines
I will do it. I'll put droolback3 as the background on the test page.
Then folks can go to vote by clicking on the one they like best at
http://www.spring.net/adsense
I'll count the votes and let you know which one is most popular.
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Response 318 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Aug 11, 2003 (09:42) * 8 lines
Drooleurs:
Please pick the color scheme you like the best on this page:
http://www.spring.net/drool
I put the drool background on this page.
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Response 319 of 355: Shoshana Froman (Shoshana) * Mon, Aug 11, 2003 (11:08) * 1 lines
Against the Drool background, I think fresh mint is most pleasing, though it does sort of seem to blend in and could seem to disappear. Melancholy blue and raspberry smoothie are also nice and stand out more.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 320 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Mon, Aug 11, 2003 (11:14) * 3 lines
Good to have confirmation about "fresh mint" from another computer. I always worry that nonconforming colors.
I vote for fresh mint as well.
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Response 321 of 355: Shoshana Froman (Shoshana) * Fri, Aug 15, 2003 (21:56) * 1 lines
Terry -- love the google ad for "springs." Was that a conscious choice or random? Very humorous!
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Response 322 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Aug 16, 2003 (10:48) * 14 lines
Shoshana, I have no say over which ad google places.
On one site, I heard this story.
Yep, they're still tweaking:
The technology is not yet foolproof. The online edition of The New York
Post, which is owned by the News Corporation, ran an article last month
about a murder in which the victim's body parts were packed in a
suitcase,
and Google served up an ad for a luggage dealer.
from the above NYT piece
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Response 323 of 355: Beedee (Beedee) * Sat, Aug 16, 2003 (12:16) * 5 lines
(Terry)and Google served up an ad for a luggage dealer.
Shoshana, I had the same question! Very funny Terry.
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Response 324 of 355: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Sep 11, 2003 (20:28) * 1 lines
i have finally seen the light (colors, that is) and i like cut grass the best! though raspberry smoothie comes in a tight second.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 325 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Oct 23, 2003 (20:13) * 1 lines
This makes me hungry!
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 326 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (14:29) * 6 lines
http://www.austen.com/board/index.cgi?read=45813
The above url is my appeal to Ann Haker and to the supporters of
http://austen.com to contribute to the pledge drive. I know there's some
overlap in the two groups, but I'm not sure how much. It's a mystery to
me even.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 327 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (15:18) * 9 lines
And with ten minutes of posting this there was a contribution!
Contribute via paypal, credit card or snailmail at
http://spring.net
I'm going to work up a contribute page also.
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Response 328 of 355: Wolf (wolf) * Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (15:48) * 1 lines
terry-i made a donation about a month ago and wanted to make sure you received it. pls let me know!
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Response 329 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (16:29) * 1 lines
Appeals to the austen.com only need to be on austen.com. Now, don't spend that $10 (or should I say that $9 and change, after fees) too quickly.
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Response 330 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Oct 28, 2003 (18:20) * 5 lines
OK, I put the appeal in the Derbyshire Writer's Guild message board.
http://austen.com/board/index.cgi?read=45813
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Response 331 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (09:25) * 0 lines
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Response 332 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (09:28) * 1 lines
Terry, as I've told you before, posting messages to donors here is useless.
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Response 333 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (11:27) * 2 lines
That's fine. I'll send the donor a card via snailmail.
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Response 334 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (21:59) * 0 lines
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Response 335 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (22:04) * 0 lines
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Response 336 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (22:51) * 0 lines
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Response 337 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (22:54) * 0 lines
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Response 338 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:02) * 0 lines
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Response 339 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:13) * 0 lines
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Response 340 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:14) * 1 lines
Thank you!
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Response 341 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:30) * 1 lines
Terry, please make your funding requests elsewhere, not on Drool. We've had our fund-raising drive.
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Response 342 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:31) * 2 lines
Please don't censor me like this.
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Response 343 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:33) * 3 lines
I made a genuine appeal and this topi is read across a dozen or more
conferenes. Your censorship demeans the spirit and sincereity of my
appeals.
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Response 344 of 355: Karen (KarenR) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (23:36) * 1 lines
Then delink this topic from Drool, so that other areas of Spring will read it.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 345 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Nov 1, 2003 (14:45) * 2 lines
Dreams of new frontiers of communication and some video specials . . .
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 346 of 355: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Mon, Nov 3, 2003 (12:03) * 1 lines
What's the deal with this Backtalk stuff? It's pretty cool!
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Response 347 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Nov 3, 2003 (13:26) * 4 lines
It is cool. It gives you your own interface. You an leearn more at
http://spring.net/backtalk
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Response 348 of 355: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Mon, Nov 10, 2003 (07:37) * 1 lines
I like it...
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Response 349 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, May 18, 2004 (13:19) * 12 lines
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=bank%40spring.net&item_name=Donation&item_number=1001&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=USD
... is our new donation url.
Donations are now made to bank@spring.net
We're still trying to complete our offsite backup server.
We're also working on repairs to our onsite backup server.
We don't need a lot, a little bit would help at this stage!
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Response 350 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Oct 4, 2005 (15:33) * 1 lines
Terry there should be something in your account from me. Sorry it took so long. I'll be more regular from now on. As always, many thanks for providing this forum. I'd have been in a sorry state without it.
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Response 351 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Tue, Oct 4, 2005 (22:35) * 1 lines
oh yeah, terry, i'm not trusting paypal right now because i got another one of those phishing emails.....i'll just have to mail my donation!
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 352 of 355: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Oct 5, 2005 (00:53) * 12 lines
That's fine.
Mail it to
spring.net
182 clover rd
cedar creek tx 78612
make checks out to
spring.net
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Response 353 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Oct 5, 2005 (16:17) * 1 lines
Paypal is not the ones doing the phishing using their name. It is irritating and I have reported each one as spam. I have used Paypal here and on eBay with complete success so far. I'll let you know if any further phishing expeditions occur. I blocked the spam generators yet the reap paypal receipts came thru so you know there is something else at work here.
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Response 354 of 355: Curious Wolfie (wolf) * Wed, Oct 5, 2005 (19:53) * 1 lines
actually, paypal phishing emails look exactly like paypal correspondence except that words are misspelled (if you accept anything that says @paypal.com then the phishing will get through your blockers). the link in the email brings you to an official looking site too. i did confirm with the REAL paypal that it was phishing and not a registered email address of theirs.
Topic 71 of 99 [Geo]: Spring Pledge Drive
Response 355 of 355: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Oct 6, 2005 (17:31) * 1 lines
Mine were from someone else. So far I've been spared the phishing. Thanks for thehead's up. They are more stupid that I thought they were !!
Geo conference 
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