Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!

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>>> For the SquirrelMail Team,
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>>>   Paul Lesniewski
>>
>>
>> Paul - why don't you set up a recurring payment system? See if you  
>> can't
>> get a lot of people donating a small amount monthly - would  
>> probably end
>> up more in the long term and would give you some predictable cash  
>> flow
>> so you can actually look at hiring someone part/full time based on  
>> the
>> cash coming in each month.
>
> Some others have since told me the same thing.  I think it's a good
> idea, as, as you might expect, we had a small handful of people kindly
> respond to that announcement, but since then, we've not really seen
> any donations.  The last thing I want to do is keep bugging people
> about it, so this idea is definitely a good one - it will have to take
> some figuring out how to set it up, though - not sure if it can be
> done with PayPal, or if we'd even want to do it that way.
>
>> Perhaps market it as a 'sponsors club' which gives members access  
>> to a
>> sponsors-only support mailing list which has slightly priority. This
>> would be great incentive for continued giving.
>
> That's a decent idea.  I'd be very interested to see what other people
> think about it.....???
>
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> Paul Lesniewski
> SquirrelMail Team
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