Pietenpol-List: A Season of Giving - Please Support Your List!

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Original Posted By: Edward Nolan
Subject: Pietenpol-List: A Season of Giving - Please Support Your List!Dear Listers,As my good friend Al Mojzisik from the RV-List forum has pointed out inhis humorous style this morning, its time for the Annual List FundRaiser! For those that are new to the Lists since last year, I'd liketo just mention what its all about. I have always run the List serviceshere completely free of charge to the members. This includes the EmailLists, Archive Search Engine, as well as some of the other goodies foundon the servers. My policy has always been that I will never charge a'fee' to sign up for any of the email Lists and I have also turned downa number potentially lucrative of 'commercial' offers to provideadvertising space either on the various web pages or on in each of theoutgoing emails. I have always graciously declined these offers,however, because I have felt that the friendly, homey feeling of thecommercial-free site was very appealing. I have also felt that offeringthe services here for free is the best way to stimulate the greatestmembership, and in my opinion, this is the most important element in thesuccess of a forum such as this. So, once again, I will restate mycommitment to always keeping all of the services here on the Matronicsservers free to everyone.That being said, I must also say that running this system is far fromfree for me, however. I am continually trying to provide the best, mostreliable service possible and have continued to upgrade the systems asnecessary to maintain or improve the level of service I provide. Quiteaside from the "real costs" involved in the maintenance of a servicelike this, however, is the time commitment necessary to keep everythingrunning and time required to produce new and improved softwareenhancements to make the whole experience more enjoyable for everyone.On the average I spend 10 to 20 hours a week handling subscriptionrequests and related problems, maintaining the existing computer codebase, and developing new utilities for the List community. The whole List site (web server and email server) continue to run acrossthe 768kb/sec DSL-based Internet connection. Connections to the servershave generally been pretty reliable and performance has been good. Uptime for the connection has approached the 99% mark. If you regularly enjoy the services provided here, I would ask that youmake a Contribution in any amount in which you are comfortable. YourContribution will be used to directly support the continued operationand improvement of all these services, and as always, I will turn yourContributions back into more upgrades and improvements. It is truly aninvestment in the future of these Lists.To make a SSL Secure Web Contribution using your Visa or MasterCard,please go to the following URL and follow the simple instructions: http://www.matronics.com/contribution.htmlTo make a Contribution by check, please send US Mail to: c/o Matt Dralle Matronics PO Box 347 Livermore, CA 94551As I have done in the past, I will post a "Contributors List" at the endof the Fund Raiser, personally acknowledging each and everyone that hasgenerously made a Contribution this year!Finally, I just want to say *Thank You* to everyone that has supportedme and my operation here this year. Your support and encouragementmeans a great deal to me and I feel like I have friends literally fromall around the world!Sincerely,Matt DralleYour Email List Administratordralle(at)matronics.com============================================================================>-------------->--> RV-List message posted by: Al Mojzisik >>Well folks,>>I hate to spring this on you without much advance warning and all but it's >November already. For you newer List members you may not know but this is >the time of year we all give "thanks" for all that Matte Dralle has done >for us with this RV-List. the customary way of saying "thanks" is with a >voluntary donation of cash through Matte's own simple and safe contribution >hot-line at:>> http://www.matronics.com/contribution>>It's really rather painless and actually gives you a good warm and fuzzy >feeling inside after you have made your contribution. Now last year I >relied heavily on guilt to get some of you harder nuts to crack to ante >up. This year I hope that in keeping with the election year theme I can >learn something from the experts........"It's for the children.">>Yes your contribution will help children everywhere learn about the high >moral values that are inherent in the RV family of aircraft. As our young >charges surf the Internet for information on various things that we don't >want them to know about, they may stumble across the Matronics Website and >become aware of the RV-List and other interesting forums that Matte >provides. This in turn may change there lives as they see what can be >achieved through hard work and perseverance. They will learn how the polite >exchange of idea's between consenting adults can result in the birth of one >(or more) of the finest aircraft in existence today. They can become aware >of a whole world out there that had previously been unknown or out of reach >to them. So in the interest of our children, send your contribution to >Matte to help the RV-List live long and prosper.............Darn, got my >tongue caught in my cheek there for a moment.>>Once again, you can make your contribution through credit card at:>> http://www.matronics.com/contribution>> c/o Matt Dralle> Matronics> P.O. Box 347> Livermore, CA. 94551>>I would like to pledge at this time that I will not place any negative >advertising in the hope of raising funds for RV-List support. (Unless you >folks hold out too long, then look out!) Let's have a real clean campaign >this November and get out the contributions! AL>---------------- Matt G. Dralle | Matronics | P.O. Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551925-606-1001 Voice | 925-606-6281 FAX | dralle(at)matronics.com Emailhttp://www.matronics.com/ W.W.W. | Featuring Products For Aircraft Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss people...________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 05:09:14 -0800 (PST)

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Original Posted By: "Edward Nolan"
The original Piet plans call for a rudder bar for the pilot, and pedals forthe front passenger/student pilot.Richard----- Original Message -----

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Original Posted By: Edward Nolan