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+Hi all, To those of you who've submitted [group contact](http://freenode.net/news-2004-05-17.shtml) forms and have not yet received replies, please be patient. With the volume of replies, we've had to work on finishing the database schemas for Registry just to have some way to keep up with them. So we're backed up, but we'll catch up as soon as we can.
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+In the meantime, the freenode fundraiser is moving along fairly slowly at this point. If you've been thinking about [donating](http://freenode.net/news-2004-05-17.shtml#donate), now would be a very good time. If you've used the network and found it helpful, please think about making a donation so that we can grow the network and the [nonprofit](http://freenode.net/pdpc.shtml) [PDPC, the not-for-profit entity which runs the network --Ed.] successfully.
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