File puptcrit/puptcrit.0705, message 13


From: "Michele Acquin-Sovereign" <michele-AT-puppet-planet.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 15:50:49 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] About moving Puptcrit


You'll find that I actually contribute very little, however, I do read the
messages each evening. Its just that I'm a single mother and don't really
have a lot of time to spend at the computer. I'd much rather be in the shop
working on puppets.  =)

The moment I read your intial e-mail I voted "yes" because I value this
community and the quality of contributions given by so many who participate.
Set up the payment options Malgosia and I think most of us would probably
contribute more than the $10 asked of us. I think collecting the money first
and then finding the resoltuion is the best thing to do... this way, you
know exactly what you can afford based on the value of actual donations
received.

Just my two cents,
-Michele


-----Original Message-----
From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org
[mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-lists.driftline.org] On Behalf Of malgosia askanas
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:14 PM
To: puptcrit-AT-driftline.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] About moving Puptcrit

Dear All,

So, I have now received 51 "yes" votes in the donations poll, and perhaps a 
few more "yes" votes via email.  I would like to extend my thanks to all 
the people who have expressed their willingness to make a contribution, 
and also all those who wrote to me with expressions of support.

As I already told you, I did find this outcome vastly disappointing.  One
funny - but perhaps not so surprising - thing about it is that among those
who are willing to contribute financially are all those who also contribute
the most to making this list worthwhile and special.  Their invaluable gifts

- of memories, experiences, knowledge, judgement, analysis, synthesis,
observation, historic sense, technical know-how, and on and on - make this 
list into the wonderful resource that it has become.  It is because of them
that I regard the effort of running this list worth continuing, and the 
technical problems that this poses worth solving.

With 50 contributions, I would be able to pay for a VPS server for 1 year.
This is quite short of my original plan, which - very over-optimistically,
as it turns out - assumed that I might get something like 200 contributions,
which would pay for 4 years of a server.  If I can only get enough money to 
carry us for 1 year, I have to figure out if I could make up the extra funds

by using this server for other purposes on which I am now spending separate 
moneys. If I decide that such a consolidation would make sense, then I will 
ask you for the actual donations, and will post to the list all the payment 
details  - how to pay by PayPal, credit-card or check.

I have also followed up a bit on Dave Homsher's suggestion concerning 
freelists.org.  The say that they do have occasional blacklisting problems, 
but not (yet?) with major ISPs such as AOL or Comcast.  This means that they
might be a better solution than what we have at present, but they are still
running on a shared mail server and have to contend with the problems that 
this entails.  I am not convinced that it is worthwhile to move the list
from
one shared mail server to another - but maybe it is....  In brief, I am
going to give all this a bit of additional thought and research, and let you

know what emerges out of it.


-m
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