E-DRUG: E-drug is reorganising, and needs your support! (2)
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Dear E-druggers,
The moderators would like to thank you for the support given to us in reorganizing E-Drug, E-Med and E-Lek.
The current host FHI360 has handed over access to the servers running the listserv systems, and also control over the healthnet.org domain. The systems are supposed to keep running uninterrupted. So far so good...
We have received some technical support offers - we are now working with Craig to assess the mail server and Mailman setup. What is becoming clear is that the Mailman system needs attention. If anyone has specific knowledge of Mailman, please come forward!
Some organisations have requested more information as to how they can support E-drug. We will send them a report once we have finalized our technical assessment.
40 Subscribers (1% of those subscribed) have so far donated money to the E-Drug Paypal account at:
We received Euros, Rubels, Singapore, Australian and US Dollars, and British pounds. In total an equivalent amount of 573 Euros. This will allow us to pay for the servers in the coming months. THANK YOU to all who supported us!
However, we could use a bit more... So please if you want E-Drug to continue, donate us a bit of money!
Some subscribers have asked us whether there are alternative ways to send donations. We have opened a dedicated bank account for this. If you bank in Europe or a SEPA country, you can send Euros to:
IBAN: NL15ABNA0872172589
BIC: ABNANL2A
Name: W.J. Bannenberg
If you live outside Europe or SEPA, please send an email to wilbert@e-drug.org and we will send you the full bank details.
E-med subscribers can write in French to carinne@e-drug.org
E-Lek subscribers can write in Russian to Liliya@e-drug.org
with kind regards
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Wilbert Bannenberg, Founder and co-moderator of E-drug
Moderator email: e-drug-mod@e-drug.org
General enquiries: info@e-drug.org
Private email: wilbert@e-drug.org
Donate to E-drug! https://paypal.me/EDRUG
E-drug listinfo: http://lists.healthnet.org/mailman/listinfo/e-drug
You can submit only messages from your subscribed email address!
E-drug archives: http://lists.healthnet.org/archive/html/e-drug/
Website: www.e-drug.org (in development)
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E-DRUG: E-drug is reorganising, and needs your support!
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[important message! WB]
Dear E-druggers,
Recently FHI360 let us know that they can no longer support the servers that
run the E-Drug listserv system. They will stop support on 1 March 2020. They
have handed us the contract for the servers, the Mailman mailing system and the
healthnet.org domain. We as moderators have taken the decision to keep the
E-drug system running, as we think it still has a useful role in the world of
Access to (essential) medicines.
As you probably know the moderators have always been volunteers, and we have no
budget or income. We are now faced with the responsibility of paying for the
servers ($107/month). We also need technical IT support to maintain the servers
and the Mailman system (estimated at 5 hours/month).
So after 25 years of operations, E-drug needs your financial and/or technical
help!
If all E-druggers (am including E-med and E-lek now as well) contributed USD 5
then we would have enough budget to keep our systems running for a few years.
We have opened a PayPal E-DRUG account <https://paypal.me/EDRUG> where we hope
that many of you will make a voluntary contribution! We suggest you send us
(the equivalent of) USD 5 as a voluntary contribution.
As we are volunteers, and E-drug is not (yet) a legal entity, the account is
for the time being in the name of Willibrord (Wilbert) Bannenberg, and is
exclusively for the support of E-drug, E-med and E-lek. The other moderators
will get regular updates of the account from Wilbert. And we will share our
annual financial picture with the list.
You can also help us by suggesting a new sponsor or organisation that we can
partner with.
E-druggers with technical skills for setting up and running a website,
cloud-based servers are invited to send a message to
<mailto:wilbert@e-drug.org> mailto:wilbert@e-drug.org We also welcome collaboration
with other organisations!
We have also secured new domains: e-drug.org, e-med2.org and e-lek.org where we
can place the archives and possibly start a website.
The moderators are also open for suggestions to move the E-drug system to
another platform.
In the coming months we will explore our options and will inform you from time
to time.
So please help us to keep the E-drug systems going!
On behalf of all moderators,
Beverley Snell, Kirsten Myhr, Richard Laing, Carinne Bruneton, Liliya
Ziganshina and Wilbert Bannenberg
Email: mailto:e-drug-family@e-drug.org
Please support E-drug: https://paypal.me/EDRUG