This is a typical email sent inviting a contact at a site to join the project.   
These emails were sent on September 21, 2001.

Last month, on behalf of the SLAC/FNAL exhibit at SC2001, I submitted to SC2001 
an email of intent to participate in the 
SC2001 bandwidth challenge. Now I need to submit a proposal in the next few days.  
To do this I need commitments from various sites to participate in this proposal. 
Since we have already been collaborating on making high performance throughput 
measurements, I thought you would want to be involved in this proposal.

I have a rough draft of the proposal for the SC2001 bandwidth challenge. It is available at:
http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/monitoring/bulk/sc2001/proposal.html
The idea is roughly to send lots of data from SC2001 to places around the world 
(in particular PPDG and HENP sites), plot the various throughputs, RTTs, 
losses etc. achieved and also aggregate them in real time.  I hope/suspect 
you will want to be involved. I need someone from your organization to be a 
contact (you would be fine). I may already have, or else will need a logon account 
for a sutiable Unix host (Linux or Solaris host with good connectivity to the
Internet) at your site on which I can run iperf/bbcp to ship 
several tens of Mbits/s (or more) from SC2001 or vice versa.  The impact on your site 
is to be willing to accept some bulk traffic for testing before SC2001, 
and during SC2001. This will be intermittent.  Since we will be using multiple hosts, 
I do not expect the load on any individual site to be monstrous or for very long. 
In fact we may be able to try some QoS ideas or application self pacing ideas to 
limit impact, which could also be interesting. 

I want to send in the proposal by close of business Wednesday next week, which 
means I NEED COMMITMENTS FROM SITES BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS MONDAY 24th, SEPTEMBER 2001.

As I get people to agree I will add a table of contacts (with email, phone, 
and function)and another table of what I know about each site's connectivity 
(ISP, speed etc.), and what machines are available, OS, MHz etc. I will also 
rough out an idea of what the real time displays might look like. I will be 
sending individual emails to contacts over the weekend to get buy in.  Corrections, 
suggested additions, comments etc. will be gratefully received.