From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Tue Mar 11 23:38:01 2003 Received: from ccl.net ([192.148.249.4]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h2C4c1r29743 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:38:01 -0500 Received: from arlen.ccl.net (arlen.ccl.net [192.148.249.10]) by ccl.net (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6/OSC 2.1) with ESMTP id h2C4c2t16664; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:38:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:38:00 -0500 (EST) From: Jan Labanowski To: chemistry@ccl.net cc: Jan Labanowski Subject: CCL needs your help... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Friends, CCL is a good thing, and we should try to keep it alive and improve it. Can you help me financially ? No help is too little help!!! I will go straight to the chase and tell you how you can help before I tell you why I need your help... (People who have money, often do not have time to read lengthy motivational speeches {:-)}). You can help me with donations (you will get a letter from OSU acknowledging the donation for tax purposes). You can also purchase our services (you will be billed as with other purchases -- yes, we do accept purchase orders). We sell CCL archives on CDs for 250 USD. Please also advertise job openings on our server (it is only $100 -- see http://www.ccl.net/jobs for details). I am being told that job service is really effective. We can accept payment with a check, or MC/Visa, or wire transfer. Make your checks payable to "CCL Development Fund" and send them to me. If you want to charge it to credit card, call me, or send a FAX to: "CCL Development Fund", name on the card, address, MC or Visa, expiration, amount of donation, and sign/date it. FAX number is: 614-688-3998. This is a secure FAX in the OSC business office, and your Card Number is safe. Ask me for details, and I will be happiest to tell you how to help me, or you can click on [How can you support CCL] on our home page: www.ccl.net and read all about it. Do not be shy, you can buy several copies of CCL archives (they contain complete content of our Web site) or subscribe to periodical updates. If you give us a large donation, we will put a logo of your company on a Web page of your choice with a link to your Web site as our way of saying: Thank you. Now... Why I need your help... OSC is VERY GENEROUS to allow CCL to run under its roof and give us resources at no cost: bandwidth, space, and some of my time. When you click on our pages, they load fast... The bandwidth which we get from OSC for CCL is worth at least a $1000 a month. We also have office space... and access to expertise and help. But OSC and all other HiEd institutions in Ohio (and elsewhere) are going through the period of fiscal conservatism (for the lack of better term). Last week the Governor of the State of Ohio announced additional retroactive budget cuts to Ohio Education. Ohio has a balanced budget constitution, and if the income from taxes is lower than projected, we get budget cuts. They tried to tax booze and smoke, but legislators said: "No new taxes". So we are being cut. It is quite depressing... This is the second retroactive budget cut this fiscal year. The Ohio Supercomputer Center is not spared its share of current economic prosperity. These are cuts to our operational budget, and you know what I am talking about... You can imagine that I am quite busy lately with many things and looking for some additional funding for my institution. The CCL needs your help. I need students assistants to process the mail, to keep the list spam free, to maintain hardware, software, and content, etc. We also constantly struggle with security updates, crackers' attacks, exploits, backups, etc. Keeping this thing running is time consuming and requires a lot of attention to details. Someone has to do this, and although I am trying to keep my sleep at minimum, I am simply running out of physical time, and I need student assistants, and, at occasions, help of our system staff at Ohio Supercomputer Center. My body just refuses to function with less than 4 hours of sleep a day. I am getting old {:-(}. When you click on [sponsors] link on CCL home page: http://www.ccl.net you will see that I did not bug you for money lately {:-)} I really hate to stick my hand out, but if this is the only way to keep CCL running, I am gladly doing this... I will really appreciate your help, and I am really thankful for everyone who helped me ever. Be assured that your money is not wasted, and by helping CCL you help scores of people out there who use our list and learn from it. You are also helping yourself, since if you are reading this message, it means that you are on CCL and that it is useful for you. Moreover, look at it this way... There are only few research communities who were able to keep such forum running for many years. Even when you do not need to contact the list, the fact that you can contact thousands of computational chemists by sending a message to chemistry@ccl.net makes you feel empowered. At least it should !!! Thanks!!! Jan Jan K. Labanowski | phone: 614-292-9279, FAX: 614-292-7168 Ohio Supercomputer Center | E-mail: jkl@ccl.net 1224 Kinnear Rd, | http://www.ccl.net/~jkl Columbus, OH 43212-1163 | http://www.ccl.net/ http://asdn.net/