9/15/2001

To our beloved readers and contributors--

12gauge.com has been on a long hiatus, and we feel that it’s only right that we tell you what’s been going on.   As with the rest of the internet economy, we were hit pretty hard by the tech bust of 2000.  We didn’t really feel it until almost the end of last year.  But it all came down on us this year.  It was monetary as well as psychological.

We’ve learned our lessons.   Yet we decided to punch on.

We are grateful for your patience, and we continue to get excellent work from everywhere on the globe, from all US states, Canadian provinces, Australia, and elsewhere English is spoken.

This is more than what we dreamt of when we started the site six years ago, hunkered around a donated 486 PC in a loft space in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

So here are our humble and belated thank-you’s.

Thank you, Connecticut, New Jersey, Texas, Alabama, California, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, and all the rest of the great US states in which our contributors and readers reside.  Thank you, New York.  And most of all, Brooklyn.

Thank you, Ontario, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Quebec.

Thank you, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria.

Thank you, Ireland.  Thank you, England.  Thank you, Scotland.  Thank you, India.

Thank you, Sweden.  Thank you, Belgium.  Thank you, Israel.  Thank you, South Africa.

Our best wishes to you and yours during these strange and dark times.