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From: "J. William Cupp" <>
Subject: [BRADFORD-L] A Little "Advertising"
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:31:54 -0500

Hello all genealogical researchers:

I do hope you'll forgive me a bit of "spam" but this *is* highly
relevant to the purpose of this list. The following clip from the
weekly RootsWeb newsletter tells of the significant amount of work being
done on behalf of us genealogical researchers:

[CLIP]
ROOTSWEB REVIEW: Genealogical Data Cooperative News
Vol. 2, No. 14, 7 April 1999. Circulation: 286,000+
(C) 1998-1999 RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative.

Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
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NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB

163,035,217 EMAIL MESSAGES AND A LOT MORE. In March, RootsWeb
supported the following for the Internet genealogical community:
o 4,030 independently authored Web sites.
o 108,887,834 total Web hits:
28,801,459 were HTML pages.
17,209,828 were cgi-bin database searches and such.
62,815,960 were graphics (GIFs, JPEGs, etc.).
o 2,154,058 file downloads from the USGenWeb Archives and
the ROOTS-L Library.
o 6,100 independently operated RootsWeb-hosted mailing lists.
o 163,035,217 pieces of e-mail shipped to our mailing lists.

That's about a 14% increase in traffic just since January.

What folks may not realize is just what those numbers mean. It
takes a huge amount of bandwidth to transfer all these Web pages
and e-mail messages to the Internet, and RootsWeb's monthly
Internet costs have grown from about $10,000 to about $12,000 in
just the last two months.

It also takes about 30 servers (very large computers) to handle
all these Web pages and mailing lists, and RootsWeb is having to
spend $10,000 or more each month adding new servers and upgrading
its older servers to keep up with demand.

No government agency or big corporation pays for RootsWeb: we're
entirely supported by contributions made by users like you. If
you like the support RootsWeb is providing for the genealogical
community and if you want help RootsWeb provide even better
support for the community, please consider supporting us and
becoming a RootsWeb Contributor:
<http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html>;
or send e-mail to: <>
* * * * *
TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE
(or UNSUBSCRIBE) to: <>.
* * * * *
Previously published by RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative,
RootsWeb Review, Vol. 2, No. 14, 7 April 1999. Please visit
RootsWeb's main Web page at <http://www.rootsweb.com/>;.
[END CLIPPLING]

I realize that most of you know about RootsWeb and many of you also
probably saw the original of this newsletter; forgive me wasting your
time. However, I know that a lot of new genealogy hobbyists 'lurk' on
our lists for awhile and I'm hoping some of them will become aware of
RootsWeb and the wonderful services provided for research (and maybe
consider helping out $$$).

P.S. I don't get any compensation or rewards from RootsWeb -- just
trying to pass along what I consider to be a valuable tip.

- Bill

--
J. William Cupp Asst Professor, Computer Information Systems
(765)677-2292 Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana
dock at my homeport:
http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp | | /
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