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>Subject: Re: #5616  Tenth Anniversary of LLTI Today!
>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:55:58 +0200

Otmar,

     I am glad you enjoy editing LLTI, but even an enjoyable task can become burdensome. Look at Moses kvetching to God about all the nudniks who were bugging him: "Wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all these people upon me? Have I conceived all these people, have I begotten them?" (Numbers, 11:11-12) 

     Personally, I am addicted to LLTI and I read it first thing every morning. I hope you do it at least until 2013, when I am scheduled to retire... In Hebrew we say "Yishar Kochacha" (literally: "may your strength be straight", i.e., right). Thanks!

David Ben-Nahum
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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  Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:36 PM
  Subject: #5616 Tenth Anniversary of LLTI Today!


  Today, June 28, 2000, marks the tenth anniversary of LLTI. It was on this day exactly ten years ago that I sent an email message to David Avery here at Dartmouth College asking him to set up a listserv mechanism to be called LLTI. We started on a mainframe CMS machine and have now graduated to a small dual-processor Pentium box that handles about 40 lists that have their home here at Dartmouth College 



  Today our membership is close to 1400. A large majority of members comes from the ".edu" domain (more than 55%), followed by subscribers from the ".net" domain, followed by subscribers from the ".ca" (Canada) domain. Subscribers from ".org,", ".com," and ".mil" make up about about 7%. The remaining subscribers come from 36 countries and make up about 30 percent of membership. Some subscribers still have bitnet addresses that I cannot clearly identify without investing a large amount of time. 



  LLTI is a successful list because all of you have been contributing over the years. Our archive contains enormous amounts of information on issues concerning our profession. Our sponsors - Dartmouth College, IALL (The International Association for Language Learning Technology), and the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning - have been generous in providing time, funds, and technology over the last ten years. 



  Editing this list is a daily pleasure for me. There are very few lists in this world where information is shared so generously among colleagues. I look forward to at least another ten years of working with all of you! 



  Otmar Foelsche (LLTI-editor) 

  Dartmouth College