From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 17:25:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12592 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:25:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12543; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:25:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA13668; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:24:09 -0800 (PST) To: Nate Williams cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 17:03:43 MST." <199803040003.RAA03710@mt.sri.com> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 17:24:09 -0800 Message-ID: <13664.888974649@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > My gut-level reaction to the donation is that you give the donater the > ability to give the developers a 'hint' at what they'd like, with the How is this any different than people being able to give us hints (via the mailing lists) now? Or are you asking for a comment field specifically on the donation card, or something? I probably won't actually be *doing* donation cards as such in any case since they're something of a pain and don't really return much (Rich Morin of Prime Time Freeware did this on behalf of the FSF and got something like 2 donations for every 1000 cards sent out). > understanding that it's only a hint. The PBS station does this, and the > way it works is that if you're happy with how your money is spent, you Sort of - the PBS stations around here just hold telethons and take your money, then you find out whether you liked what they did with it when you watch the station for the next year; I've never been able to influence their programming schedule in any way that I can see, despite being a frequent donor to KQED. :) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message