I was on an insulin pump mailing list that had a message asking for donations... if you donated any amount, that message was removed from the emails... I donated $10 and that took care of that...
I honestly can't believe that people would drop off the list if a small amount was required... On 4/21/05, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I would be forced to withdraw, and I imagine that lots of other people might > >be in the same boat for the same reason that Jochem and Paul Hastings > >mentioned. I've been through this before elsewhere, and I simply wouldn't be > >able to justify the risk. And it's worth pointing out that the list would be > >significantly less valuable if it loses the likes of Jochem and Paul. > >Between the two of them, they cover everything there is to know about RFCs > >and Unicode! > > > >Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > Instead of forcing people to pay to subscribe to the list, an alternative > could be an advertising free list for a fee - $20 to $50 a year lets say, and > a free, but supported by ads lists. That way if you're willing to suffer the > ad links in the contents of the messages, you don't have to pay. But you can > get rid of the ads by paying a small fee up front. Then after you log into > the HOF site, the ad links in the message content would dissappear. > > This way all views are accommodated. > > larry > > -- > Larry C. Lyons > Web Analyst > BEI Resources > American Type Culture Collection > email: llyons(at)atcc(dot)org > tel: 703.365.2700.2678 > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:203817 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
