Re: Greetings and respect from Cyril Babaev

I have received the following message from the founder of our list,
Cyril Babaev. It was addressed to me but evidently meant for all and
sundry Cybalisters' eyes, so I take the liberty of forwarding it to you
together with my reply.

29-11-03 11:27, indoeurop wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> I am very glad to hear from you. I am terribly sorry for such a
> disconvenience: I should have paid more attention to the demands of
> our respectable members. Unfortunately, for the last two years I've
> been too busy making my career, so I had to give up TIED and Cybalist
> forum. This is why I am glad to see that my colleagues took up the
> management of the List and made it a world-known resource.

Dear Cyril,

Many thanks for the way you have handled it. Cybalist is your virtual
cyberchild and its popularity is a feather in your cap. I'm happy to see
that you are well and as energetic as ever.

>
> I am very grateful to all of you. As for the demands to hand over the
> management functions to Piotr Gasiorowsky, I suppose this will be
> natural and just. I wrote a letter to him giving all my account names
> as the moderator of the List. I hope he will manage it successfully
> and effectively. I would only ask him in case he changes the password
> to tell me the new one.

Needless to say, I won't take advantage of your authorisation in order
to take any of these functions away from you. But I'd like to appoint
reserve moderators and give them all the necessary rights to guarantee
the undisturbed functioning of the list. Diffuse management is simply a
vital necessity on such a big and busy list.

> I am sure some day I will stop working for money and get back to my
> online "Cyril Babaev Linguistic Studies" (CyBaLiSt). And then we will
> start even more interesting projects on the Net.

> Greeting to all my friends,

> Yours,

> Cyril Babaev
> Moscow, Russia

I wish you the best of luck with all your plans, and I'll be looking
forward to any new linguistic projects. I hope you will appear on
Cybalist at least from time to time. You've been missed there.

Yours,

Piotr