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Date:      Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:41:32 -0600 (CST)
From:      Shawn Leas <sleas@mn26hp6.honeywell.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>, "John S.Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject:   Re: 3.0-RELEASE? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.96.980303163000.21704B-100000@mn26hp6.honeywell.com>
In-Reply-To: <12025.888963573@time.cdrom.com>

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On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Offer membership.  1 year membership is $10.00, two years for only $18,50. 
> > A lifetime membership for a nice, round $1,000.00.  People can commit to
> > lifetime membership by sending $25.00/month for 40 months.
> 
> Sounds kinda scary, really - I think I'd break the donation blocks
> into more manageable chunks (and make the one year membership just a
> bit more - $10 is almost not even worth the handling fee).

Maybe the membership thing is a little inflexible, however, if you want
to donate, donate! Membership doesn't have to be the only way to
contribute.

> I'm assuming you're not serious in that particular paragraph (and if you
> were, I'd demand $1,000,000 a year for the right to cross-post to as many
> mailing lists as they wanted - I HATE that :).

Selling exemption to netiquete is panamount to the pope selling
forgiveness in the old days of the catholic church.  (Please don't take
this as a flame, catholics, it's just historical fact) I think the price
should be $1,000,000,000.

> > To keep the project socialistically correct, we reject any and all
> > corportate donations.  Or, we may say that corporate membership costs 35
> > times more than an individual membership and carries 1/3 the voting rights.

Reject donations???  Maybe from Chinese interests who just want
political influence.

Shawn


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