From chemistry-request # - at - # server.ccl.net Thu May 17 14:10:52 2001 Received: from ccl.net ([192.148.249.4]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4HIAqI21211 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 14:10:52 -0400 Received: from krakow.ccl.net (krakow.ccl.net [192.148.249.195]) by ccl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/OSC 2.0) with ESMTP id OAA23105; Thu, 17 May 2001 14:10:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:10:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jan Labanowski To: chemistry ^at^ ccl.net cc: Jan Labanowski Subject: From the maintainer of CCL Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear CCL Subscriber, This is your list maintainer speaking {:-)}... Do not touch this d(ial)... I will try to be short... This will consist of: help-mes, my plans, thank yous, and appeal to your benevolent instincts (i.e., help guys and galls, again...). I want to thank all of you who either bought CCL Archives CD sets from us, or who gave us donations. Your help is very needed and VERY APPRECIATED. All the CCL members owe you for that, since this keeps CCL running. If you did not do it yet, please help CCL financially: You can either get invoiced and buy set of 4 CDs representing CCL Archives, or just give us a donation which can be deducted from taxes in the US, and probably other countries too. For details check: http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/aboutccl/supporting/ Again I want to thank all of you who helped me up to date. No donation is too small, and if each of you gave me $25 I would have all my needs covered. But since the current number of supporters is less than a hundred, please try also to make up for those who cannot or may not contribute. We will soon have vacation time. For some of us it is the busiest time to do research, since the lines to equipment are shorter, many students are gone fishing, and the teaching load is low... For some of us it is time we do travel, take a rest, go to conferences, etc. I will take some time off during summer, early June to mid July (guess where I go: to Poland... and hopefully to some other countries around). While usually I want to be close to a phone jack and have a laptop at hand, this time may be different. I plan to spend some time out there in the middle of nowhere (namely on the ridges of Beskid mountains). At the same time, I want the CCL to continue operating... The only way CCL can continue operation is that I get help. Thanks to the OSC management and their help and encouragement, and the help of CCL subscribers through their donations and purchases, I have some hourly/undergraduate students working with me in maintaining CCL and doing the daily chores. This is tremendous help since I am getting busier and busier every month (or maybe I just get less efficient {:-)}) and without the help of students, it would be very hard for me to keep CCL going. Unfortunately, the student turnaround is quite fast, and once they learn "the stuff" about Web and sysadm, they get better jobs outside OSU campus. I would like to have a more stable environment for CCL and more experienced students to operate the resource. It would be nice to have it now, before I take off abroad. One way of achieving it is to get Graduate Student Assistants (GRA) who are more dependable, more experienced, and if you pay their tuition, they have a reason to stay with you. Vacations is also good time to get the students since it is decision time for them. CCL has a lot of needs: update archives, find new material, install and improve operating software for the list and Web site, upgrade hardware and organization, upgrade firewall and security, etc... Please consider helping me financially. Now you can use research grant money to do this. Review the page: http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/aboutccl/supporting/ If you are a graduate student, please encourage your Ph.D. advisor to buy the CCL Archives CD Set. Just do it, please... If you cannot help financially, please consider contributing good messages to CCL discussions, and give us some software or write-ups to put in CCL archives. Please help me in keeping this resource useful, current, and interactive. Note that we also want to expand our service to the community with more specialized discussions lists: http://www.AtomicScaleDesign.Net We are operating within the academic environment and we are very careful to have a broad support base and non-allied status. In is not about money for us, and if we cannot do it this way, we will not do it. Please help!!! Thank you for you attention and contributions throughout all these years. Can you imagine that the CCL is more than 10 years old? We were here before the Web and hype... So please help us to be here now and long after the scum and hype dissipates. Jan Labanowski jkl %-% at %-% ccl.net Jan K. Labanowski | phone: 614-292-9279, FAX: 614-292-7168 Ohio Supercomputer Center | Internet: jkl- at -ccl.net 1224 Kinnear Rd, | http://www.ccl.net/chemistry.html Columbus, OH 43212-1163 | http://www.ccl.net/