Connie Snyder wrote: > > Lynn wrote: > > > Looks like the lists may be back up and running!!! > > Lynn > > Yes, they all seem to be going again. Most of them came back online last > night, and they have been sending out the messages that came in while > they were working on the system over the weekend. > > I hope everyone was able to handle the peace and quiet for the last few > days. > > Connie Hi All, The following is a message from John Tallman on ESSEX-ROOTS, with a follow-up from me. > Well Folks - > > Isn't is nice to be back on line and communicating again? Did you miss the > list? > I certainly did!!! > > Now - isn't this a really good time to show how much we missed the list with > those not yet financially supporting RootsWeb but reaping its benefits, to go > to http://www.rootsweb.com and, at a minimum, become a member - it's only > $12.00 per year and that's only a minimum. The benefit of RootsWeb to me can > hardly be translated to cold hard cash - but it certainly does help. > > I've no connection with RootsWeb other being a very grateful recipient of > their work, talent, time, dedication and commitment and for this I'm most > happy to contribute. > > Lets go for it!!!!!!! > > John Tallman Hooray for John!! When I moved up here last month, and had to leave Earthlink's unlimited access, I started paying my ISP $480/year to them for Cyber Junkie access. I was just thankful that an ISP was up here. Then, when I learned how it was mostly just Brian & Karen, a few others and their "box" at our mutual ISP, with mostly volunteers running the mammoth project, and how for just $12 beyond the basic $12, I with others, could collectively support new lists, new GenWeb sites, and anything else we would like to see, beyond what they've already managed. That's what I wanted, not just to cover their expense of what they've already done for me, but see them provide more for just $24, only 5% of what I'm paying to be online, I thought, what's $24 compared to all they've done? It wasn't from my family that I learned that my grgrandmother's nick-name was "Libbie", it was on GenWeb. Now, I know who wrote those Civil War era letters that I have in my possession! Here's what Brian Leverich wrote to me, 1 Sep 1998: "Just to let you know, your contribution came at a particularly good time in that it is helping to pay for the additional bandwidth and server capacity that we've added to accommodate ROOTS-L and the 4,000+ other mailing lists we support and the 2,200+ Websites that RootsWeb hosts, including the Olive Tree Genealogy, USGenWeb and the USGenWeb Archives, and the Roots Surname List." He didn't even mention Cyndi's List! That just falls into the category of one of those 2,200+ Websites. Somehow, it seems that those payments should have been reversed, that the $24 should have gone to our ISP and $480 to Rootsweb, for all that they are accomplishing and providing free of charge for us all, just because they want to. So, Yes, lets go for it!!! I have no connection to Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative. I just contributed a little to help them keep going, although I do hope to meet them someday as they have a house here somewhere. Now, Our List Mom won't have to remind us. --"Sandi" Sponsor of Rootsweb Pine Mountain Club, CA The community home to Mount Pinos Webspinners, Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative