NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2019 Aug 22, 20:12 -0700
I wrote a week ago tonight:
It's that time again. Please, if you are able, contribute to NavList Operations:
http://www.fer3.com/contribute.aspx?gid=NavList.Operations contributions cover actual costs like domain registration and especially hosting for the website and message archive which now has several gigabytes of files on it (it's cheap to carry around a few gigs in your pocket, but online it's still expensive for fast-access web hosting). Contributions also cover the work I do on the site infrastructure. I work about half an hour daily, every day, on NavList management, coding, and other development, including the NavList Twitter feed. This website, fer3.com, is devoted 99% to NavList activities and archives.
I understand that not everyone is able to contribute. Not everyone wants to contribute. There's no obligation whatsoever, but it is critical this time.
Many thanks to those of you who have contributed for NavList Operations in the past seven days. I have tried to send everyone a thank-you by private email. I hope I didn't miss anyone. It's not too surprising, given recent talk of the inverted yield curve in the US and a looming recession as well as uncertainties from Brexit and such, that contributions are down from previous years. I do hope that a few of you out there who just needed a little reminder will see this message as that reminder. Please, if you are able, contribute to NavList Operations: http://www.fer3.com/contribute.aspx?gid=NavList. Thanks in advance!
Frank Reed