Dudes:

As most of you know, I started the PICLIST Fund five months ago as a
means for PICLIST subscribers to express through monetary donations
their gratitude to Jory Bell, who started the list three years ago
and has been running it ever since.

Contributions to the Fund are purely voluntary; everyone can donate,
but no one HAS to.

A complete explanation of the Fund is on my web page; the URL is in
my signature.  If you don't have web access, send me a private
e-mail and I'll send the info to you.

Some interesting (at least to me) Fund statistics:

    1.  Well over half (close to two-thirds, actually) of the
        contributions have come from outside the US... I've received
        checks from Poland, India, South Africa, Australia, France,
        Canada, and the UK.  This REALLY surprised me, since the
        overwhelming majority of PICLIST subscribers live in the USA.

    2.  About half the contributors wanted their donations to be
        anonymous.

    3.  The contributions were evenly split between members who are
        VERY active on the list and members that I'd never heard of.

Anyway, the PICLIST Fund will close at the end of this month, at
which point I'll send all the money I've collected to Jory.

So...

If you haven't contributed and want to, please send your check NOW.

Thanks.

-Andy

=== Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
=== Fast Forward Engineering - Vista, California
===
=== Custodian of the PICLIST Fund -- For more info, see:
=== http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499/fund.html