[dba-Tech] Administrivia - Database Advisors Funding Drive

[Peter Brawley]

Bryan,

Re "Database Advisors", I'm interested only in dba-tech, is there a way 
to help foot the bill of just this list?

PB

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On 10/15/2018 13:48, Bryan Carbonnell wrote:
> Dear List(s):
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> The time has come to have a serious talk.  About money.
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> Domain names and internet hosting costs real actual money.  Which we’re
> running out of. So we need some.
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> So here’s the deal.  We need about $500 to keep Database Advisors running
> for another year.  Less than that for the next few years after that.
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> Keith Williamson, who has been a real brick about taking care of the messy
> details, has set up a PayPal site where we can contribute dough.
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> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SGVT87NEVPU9A
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> But what we’re really interested in is your intention to donate some real
> bread to the cause.  After all, there’s no sense in raising $250 when you
> need $500 and the thing goes down the tubes for lack of a few bucks.
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> Reply to this email and tell us how much you will donate if we decide to
> pull the trigger.
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> I’ve been a member of DBA before it was DBA – when it was hosted by Memphis
> Technologies for free and then one day they decided to pull the plug and
> suddenly we were all talking to each other through a yahoo group, trying to
> salvage AccessD.
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> And we did it.  DBA is an actual corporation with stock certificates and
> everything.  A bunch of us chipped in and thanks to some tireless work on
> the part of a few members, DBA was born and AccessD was saved.  And they’re
> still doing it today (Thank you tireless volunteers.}
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> I can’t count the number of times over the last 20 years or so (could it be
> that long?) AccessD saved my bacon; that I sent in a question at 10:30 at
> night and woke up in the morning to find that some lister in Germany or
> Australia had answered my question.  And those of us on the OT list have
> been communing for what? 20 years? Births.  Deaths.  Weddings. Divorces.
> Job changes. Happy time. Sad times.  It’s a cyber family (most of us have
> never met each other in person). And we would hate to see that circling the
> drain.
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> But I digress. Certainly the traffic on the list has diminished as the
> popularity of Access has waned.  But every couple of months they still pull
> my chestnuts out of the fire.
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> So write back.  If we send out a request for money, tell us how much we can
> count on from you.  I think we can get to $500.  If we can’t…well I don’t
> want to think about that.
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> So let us hear from you.
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> If just 10 of you chip in $50 bucks, we’re there!  Or 50 of you each
> putting in a sawbuck.  That works too.  Or anything in between.
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> OK let’s get it started.  I’m good for $50. So we only need $450 more (see
> how easy that was?)
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> You?
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> Rocky Smolin
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> Beach Access Software
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> 760-683-5777
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> www.bchacc.com
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> www.e-z-mrp.com
>
> Skype: rocky.smolin
>
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