Glenn Belcher wrote: > > The network, computers and technical services that bring you these > mailing lists is not FREE!! What I do isn't free. In fact, I pay > a small fraction of the actual costs to participate with our list. > > The Rootsweb people whom I appreciate a lot have put lots of > their own money into doing this. They don't make any money. > > *******Please read below and do what is right and fair.******* > > In August, use of RootsWeb grew on average about 15%. While > we're more than pleased by our growth, it *is* forcing us to > upgrade our servers and increase our bandwidth, which in turn > severely strains our limited financial resources. > > If you'd like to help RootsWeb grow, please consider becoming > a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor. Information on how to do that > follows the statistics. > > Here are the detailed statistics on our August operations: > o 3,078 independently-authored Websites are hosted > by RootsWeb. > > o 57,294,189 total Web hits: > - 15,545,371 were HTML pages. > - 8,116,870 were cgi-bin database searches and such. > - 33,435,089 were graphics (gifs, jpegs, etc). > > o 1,161,830 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb > Archives and the ROOTS-L Library. > > o 4,186 independently-operated mailing lists are > hosted by RootsWeb. > > o We shipped 103,079,174 pieces of e-mail to our > mailing lists. > > o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles > to hosts on three continents. > > o We shipped approximately 926,726,400,000 bytes > in total (next month we may break 1 Terabyte!). > > RootsWeb remains supported primarily by our users -- your > contributions keep us alive. Folks who would like to become > a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor (the cost is very modest) are > invited to visit: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > *** You can become a Member easily using your credit card > and our new secure server. *** > > Support from the Internet genealogical community is *crucial* > to RootsWeb's operation. The continuing growth in use has > led to both our main Web server and our main list server > being pretty much maxed out. Contributions that we can > employ to upgrade our servers are essential for us to be able > to continue bringing more genealogical Websites and mailing > lists online. > > Also, we would like to publicly thank Palladium Interactive, > publishers of the superb Ultimate Family Tree software, for > their generous support of RootsWeb: > http://www.palladium.net/ > > Thanks to everyone who participates in RootsWeb -- clearly folks > are continuing to exchanging a great deal of information! -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 > One should always be sincere!