[Clayart] Glad to be back online/read

[robert hackert]

Hi Mel. It’s an imperfect world. Glad all rectified.
Rob Hackert

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> On Dec 22, 2022, at 8:18 AM, mel jacobson <melpots at mail.com> wrote:
> 
> When clayart went down, I thought for sure
> we had been dropped from the server.
> 
> Our server is in Australia, and they give us
> a very good price to carry us as we are a 'service
> oriented site".  To pay full price for a service
> like we have is thousands of dollars per year.
> `Listserv` now is beyond us by a lot of money. Those
> services are used by big corporations and politics
> to carry messages every day around the world.
> 
> Arnold found this company and He and his Wife pay the
> bill every year as a gift to all of you.  We have never lost
> service, except for a few hours each six month period.
> 
> The money that I collect each year pays me a small stipend,
> and pays for my fibre optics here at the farm.  I give up about
> two hours a day, every day, 365. It must be cared for. It too
> is a gift to you all.
> 
> SO I ASK PLEASE. DO NOT LET UNREAD CLAYART POSTS SIT ON YOUR
> COMPUTER FOR MONTHS. IT WILL MEAN THEY HAVE TO CLEAN YOU OFF THE
> SERVER. THEY HATE DOING THAT, IT TAKES TIME TO CLEAN ALL THAT JUNK.
> (I KNOW IT IS AUTOMATED, BUT SOMEONE HAS TO RUN IT.)
> 
> IF NOTHING ELSE, OPEN A FEW OF THEM FROM TIME TO TIME AND THEN DELETE.
> MEL
> 
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