Message-Id: <9012070003.AA00882@arthur.uchicago.edu>
To: LADBAC@UNMB.BITNET
Cc: harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu, MATHRICH@UMCVMB.BITNET, lamperti@dartmouth.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 12 Oct 90 15:29:54 -0500.
             <9010122029.AA13661@zaphod.uchicago.edu> 
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 90 18:03:16 -0600
From: harelb%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu


    10/12/90
    Dear Harel,
    Before I respond to your request to post the Central America
    Update, I would like to explain who we are (the Latin
    America Data Base-LADB), what we are doing at present.
    ...
    I share your objectives in distributing alternative news and
    information sources to as many individuals and organizations
    as possible.  We have been providing the Central America
    Update free of charge to PeaceNet for years.  Numerous
    ...

Dear Barbara,

Sincer our last communication,

(1) I have moved from Chicago for pollution-related health reasons and
my address, whose relevance is in the third item, is c/o John
Lamperti, Upper Loveland Rd., Norwich, VT 05055, (802)649-1359; Rich
Winkel, the administrator of the ACTIV-L mailing list (aka AML), is
for now "in charge" of the project(s) I described. His address is
MATHRICH%UMCVMB.BITNET.

(2)I have received a complimentary PeaceNet account. The account name
is "harelb" (my (temporary) email address here is similarly
harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu); in fact, I received just two days ago the
information packet at John's house with the IGC pamphlet, password,
etc.

(3)John Lamperti has generously offered to pay the $300 for an
  [John.W.Lamperti@mac.dartmouth.edu (or just lamperti@dartmouth.edu)]
institutional membership for ACTIV-L, for which you would post
yourself (or work it out with Rich W) all the updates. I am hoping you
would be willing to allow us to post these to misc.peace.pach as well
once it is created -- although the "final" misc.peace.pach system, I
think, would/should probably institute a type of "honorware" system
(as for software) asking those who regularly/extensively read and make
use of posts to send in donations to LADB, PeaceNet, etc, whatever the
case might be.  What do you think about this?

Please give the USmail address to send the check to and who to make it
out to (hopefully involving the Univ. of N.M. so it's tax deductable),
assuming the "deal" outlined above is acceptable.

    All of the above is background for our response to your
    query about putting the Update on the Activists Mailing
    List.  We would be happy to see the bulletin distributed via
    the List if your organization or others on the List can work
    with us to prepare grant proposals to foundations or other
    sources of non-profit funding.  Another possibility would be
    conceptualizing the Activists Mailing List as an
    institutional subscriber.  The annual institutional
    subscription rate is $300.

Though I'll be out of it for a while, I would like to be able to help
LADB with grant proposals, in addition to the $300; please let me (and
Rich Winkel) know what the possibilities are.

Harel
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