I apologise for any offence, it was not intended as a slight. However, someone pays for the server or the ISP fee for the access to the Internet that is a necessary cost of making discussion between WAMUG members available to all. Each of us makes a decision from time to time whether to spend money on A or B, whether to buy brand X or go without. And each of us decides, consciously or otherwise, to put the time and effort that is necessary to keep something like WAMUG going.
All the committee did was decide that the cost of providing a service which enables users to post a question seeking advice, or to give advice, or indeed to post at all, could be recovered in part or in whole by setting a fee for membership. It is important to note that anyone, whether a member of WAMUG or not, can read whatever is posted and thus accumulate knowledge, free of charge. This is a privilege, not a right, and any complaint is unwarranted. I am not saying that whom ever it was who posted a message to the effect that they could not afford to pay $30 a year was complaining - I cannot remember what was written - and I am not a committee member, nor have I been. Michael Hawkins. On 30/06/2012, at 4:51 PM, Wendy S Austin <wendy_aus...@mac.com> wrote: > > I have been pondering the comments from Peter and Eugene and their reasons > for not being able to pay the $30.00 membership fee. I feel the need to say > I was rather disappointed in some of the responses to those comments, and > refer to the comment below. It is not for us to judge what is or is not a > significant amount of money to someone else. It is also not very wise to > be as simplistic as the comment below, about such things. It might work out > to 58 cents a week but thrown on top of other expenses people have, $30.00 > cannot always be found. I had a young school girl knock on my door last > week, fund raising for something, and when I told her I did not want to > participate she told me it was just the price of a cup of coffee after all. > How patronising! She was given a rather stern talking to and sent on her > way. > > Please don't respond to people's honest expressions of why they cannot meet > the $30.00 cost in such patronising ways, it really does demean you. > > Kind regards > > Wendy > On 28/06/2012, at 19:41 , Michael Hawkins wrote: > >> Yep, the 58 cents a week is well and truly worth it! >> >> Michael. >> > > > > > > > > Wendy S Austin > 211 Bathurst Street > Hobart Tas 7000 > Home: (03) 62852733 > Mobile: 0409951971 > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
