"Jeff Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think that SURBL is a valuable service, and I understand how it is difficult to maintain such a service without resources.
> The funding is, by design, very moderate and will provide much needed > support to sustain this initiative. However, I believe that for non-profit organizations the funding model is not moderate at all. Perhaps this is because of the unfortunate decision to put non-profits into the same category as governments, which typically are able to bring in much larger amounts of money. Or perhaps it is a short-sighted view that non-profits all fall into the same category of large, well-funded non-profits. While there are some that do have resources available to them, a large majority of non-profits are deeply struggling with resources and honestly I cannot imagine any being able to afford the subscription rates that are listed for non-profits/governments. I'm on the board of directors and am an executive for three different non-profit organizations, and although they all would be eager to contribute to SURBL, none of them could possibly meet the funding bar that has been set. The SURBL FQS is great, and it is appreciated that you have thought of small charitable/non-profits with low email volume. However, I think you are missing that there are small charitable/non-profits that can do this volume on a extremely tight budget. Micah
