---------- > From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> > To: purplevw@sl.net > Cc: listowners@rootsweb.com; Dr. Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: Cost of new search engine box - etc > Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 5:18 PM > > For the information of the list members Dave Wells dwells@zekes.com WB7ONJ Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com Proud RootsWeb Sponsor > > RootsWeb costs *real* money to operate -- about $60,000 in our > fiscal year that ended in July 1997 and, with demand growing at > about 15% per month, we expect to spend in the neighborhood of > $150,000 this year. And that's just barely scraping by on servers > and bandwidth. > > More income would let us buy more prebuilt servers, which would help > us do things like get the archives back on line faster and add other > whizziness for the Webmasters and Listowners. Also, more income > would let us do what we *really* want to be doing, which is buying > genealogical data and uploading it to the Web for everyone to freely > use. > > Our experience has been that posts listmasters have passed on to > their lists are our single best source of income. So it's great and > we *much* appreciate it when listowners help us fundraise. > > BUT IT'S NOT AN OBLIGATION !!! No listowner has an obligation to > even mention RootsWeb on their lists. > > Thanks to everyone for their support! If it weren't for RootsWeb's > Members, Sponsors, and Donors, there wouldn't be a RootsWeb. -B > > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ > P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com >