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THANKSGIVING, LCC AND MORE PHONE LINES

We made it!  We moved the system to LCC!  Steve Barton, Steve Brenner,
Eric Phillips and I converged at Clif's place last Friday night at
midnight.  Clif shut down the system and we packed the main computer,
all the disks, and the backup workstation into a VW van and
sslloowwlly, gently rolled downtown with the precious cargo, mindful
that over 1600 people were depending on us to get it right.  When we
arrived at LCC, Steve Van Devender, Darrell Fuhriman and Bruce
Berryhill had everything in readiness, including pizza.  It was a big
step for us and it went pretty smoothly, all in all.  SteveV, Clif and
Darrell had the system all plugged back together, booted up and on-line
right about 3:00 am, as promised.

There are now over 30 phone lines fed from the main 687-2996 dial-up
number (soon to be 45) and efn is connected to the Internet by a T-1
link running at 1.5 Mb/sec (over 20x faster than before).  Since we are
now located closer to the USWest building, there should be no future
"scarce copper" problems like we had in the old location when we
couldn't buy more phone lines without long lead times.  Consequently,
we'll be able to have the number of phone lines track membership
closely and getting connected won't be as hard as it has been.  With so
many people online at once, We're starting to push the efn workstation
to its limits and need to buy about 32 Mb more memory for it.

Donations for October were over $5,500-- still not breaking even, but
good, considering I haven't bothered you with any fundraising messages
for almost a whole month (another reason to be thankful?).  Even though
that amount was down a little from September (when the article in the
Register Guard brought almost 300 of you to our virtual community here
at OPN) it was ahead of projections and we are grateful for that
because moving expenses (the overlapping cost of having two sites and
two internet connections during the transition) have taken a big toll
on our budget.

So, please continue the excellent support you've given us the last two
months and help us settle into our new abode and get back on the growth
track financially.  Since we're approaching the end of the year, many
of you may wish to make an extra, tax-deductible donation to OPN in
November or December above and beyond your priority access fees.

We haven't received any grant money or even had any grants approved for
funding yet; we've received no government funds, and we're behind our
projections for major donations, so... we are relying very heavily to
almost exclusively on grass-roots contributions right now.  Please
consider saying thanks to OPN with a contribution of $50, $100 or
whatever you can afford.  Your support now counts more than ever.


TRICK OR TREAT  8<:)

Providing a public service internet connection like OPN's is a TRICKy
undertaking.  We hope you're happy about the information that we are
making available through EFN/OPN and appreciate the Public
Broadcasting-inspired funding model (free access to all with incentives
for contributors).  Please take a moment and TREAT us all to a check
(payable "Oregon Public Networking" or "OPN") to:

            OPN, Attn: Fundraising
            PO Box 1914
            Eugene OR 97440-1914

Remember to write your user-id (login name) on the check in the "memo" or
"for" space in the lower left.  Thanks for your support.

P.S. For details about priority access and donations, please read the
Priority Access FAQ which can be accessed by selecting (D)ocs from the
main menu.

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