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linguistlist.org>Dear subscribers, We thought you'd like to hear from some of the students your funds are supporting. So this year each fund drive issue will include a brief paragraph from one of our editors telling you, their sponsors, about their work with LINGUIST. And now, few words from Michael Appleby... Almost like a rite of passage, it's quite exciting the first time you send out a LINGUIST List issue as a new member of the crew. You are assigned a topic to be editor of, and under careful guidance, you go through the procedure of posting your very first message. You are told how many people will receive your message, that it is donations from the recipients who pay for you, that mistakes cannot be corrected and that everything is archived on the web forever. Then you make that final press of the 'enter' key: you have posted your first issue and can call yourself an Editor. And then you have a bit of a lie down to get over it all. Of course, posting becomes much more a matter of routine after that, but you still get quite attached to the topic you post; when it gets assigned to a new editor, you don't just abandon it but pass it carefully on. I don't really have posting responsibilities any more; one of the jobs I do instead is manage the mailing lists. So if you want a new list added, or a list configuration updated, come to me. Similarly, if you want a list archive corrupted or a vital system file deleted, also come to me, because I can do that too. Having the basic system privileges to be able to do such things, and being trusted not to do them, is definitely a perk to being Listserv Manager, as is the snazzy-sounding title itself. I also understand the mechanisms behind LINGUIST much better for it. I am also one of the student editors developing our new web site with Cold Fusion. There are a few online forums for Cold Fusion, where users interact and answer each other's questions and so on. These forums are ostensibly for professionals, but I've found myself being able to answer a few of these questions as I've browsed through them; this is from having no programming experience of any sort when I first started at LINGUIST. The point is that through working for LINGUIST I've learnt a great many skills in a very short time. Truly, the skills and experiences I've gained in my time here, I would not have had anywhere else. What's more is that I really enjoy what I do. One of the reasons I came here to do a Master's and to work on LINGUIST was to learn what it is like to research and work in the field of linguistics, and to see if it is something that I wanted to devote my career to. I've discovered that it is, and I'm rather looking forward to the future where work will feel more like a hobby. Michael Appleby To donate to LINGUIST, go to: http://linguistlist.org/donate.html To see and read more about Michael, go to: http://linguistlist.org/people/michael.htmlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue