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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!>> To donate to SquirrelMail, please visit our new donations and bounties
>> page here: >> >> http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php >> >> Thanks in advance for your generosity! >> >> For the SquirrelMail Team, >> >> 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.....??? -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!i'll cover $10 a month if i don't have to think about it!
On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Paul Lesniewski wrote: >>> To donate to SquirrelMail, please visit our new donations and >>> bounties >>> page here: >>> >>> http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your generosity! >>> >>> For the SquirrelMail Team, >>> >>> 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.....??? > > -- > Paul Lesniewski > SquirrelMail Team > Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! > http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > ----- > squirrelmail-devel mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: squirrelmail-devel@... > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:19:22AM -0700, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> >> To donate to SquirrelMail, please visit our new donations and bounties > >> page here: > >> > >> http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php > >> > >> Thanks in advance for your generosity! > >> > >> For the SquirrelMail Team, > >> > >> 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. donate I wouldn't even if I could. PayPal is just not where I want to leave my name. A simple bank account to transfer money to would probably attract more people. No registering, just pushing the money. But that counts for me and I don't know if I'm representative... :) Hauke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!To donate to SquirrelMail, please visit our new donations and bountiespage here:http://squirrelmail.org/donations.phpThanks in advance for your generosity!For the SquirrelMail Team,Paul Lesniewski There are some corporate bodies who use SquirrelMail to make money for themselves. I know of at least two (and I'm sure there're more) ISPs who use SquirrelMail as the webmail client for their customers. It's perhaps not unreasonable for those corporate bodies to pay for the privilege. There may be another option. That is, supply SquirrelMail "as is" under the current licence arrangements to all, but create an "added value" service of support and customisation - professional services - to corporate clients for which there would be a charge. Those clients wouldn't pay for the software, they'd pay for a support contract. Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!Hi,
PayPal brings me out of lurk-mode... On 9 Jun 2009, at 21:55, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > PayPal is just not where I want to > leave my name. A simple bank account to transfer money to would > probably > attract more people. No registering, just pushing the money. > But that counts for me and I don't know if I'm representative... :) X 2 with bells on!! I avoid PP like the *plague*. Even then it's not always possible... A bank account is definitely the way to go if it can be arranged. Not even Google (Checkout) can be trusted but they have *got* to be better than PP. Simon *Help stop the Database State!* www.no2id.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!Simon,
I'm going to drop back into lurk-mode in a sec... :-) On 9 Jun 2009, at 23:16, simon haywood wrote: > > There are some corporate bodies who use SquirrelMail to make money > for themselves. I know of at least two (and I'm sure there're more) > ISPs who use SquirrelMail as the webmail client for their > customers. It's perhaps not unreasonable for those corporate bodies > to pay for the privilege. Please let's not go there. Open Source is Open Source is free. Don't compromise. By all means *ask* the ISPs for a contribution but make it voluntary. How about asking developers to take on paid customisation work and donate half of the proceeds to the project? This may get *them* more work and raise money in the process...? Simon *Help stop the Database State!* www.no2id.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!Paul,
On 9 Jun 2009, at 19:19, Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> 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.....??? Good idea. As long as the free list doesn't wither and die. How about you guarantee the 'Sponsors list' a reply within 24h and help others after that? Rack the price up on the 'Sponsors list' until the numbers drop sufficiently to keep the workload down ;-) Could you 'Auction' solutions...? Simon *Help stop the Database State!* www.no2id.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!On 6/9/09, Jan Hauke Rahm <info@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:19:22AM -0700, Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> >> To donate to SquirrelMail, please visit our new donations and bounties >> >> page here: >> >> >> >> http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for your generosity! >> >> >> >> For the SquirrelMail Team, >> >> >> >> 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. > > Just my two cents...: although right now I don't have any money left to > donate I wouldn't even if I could. PayPal is just not where I want to > leave my name. A simple bank account to transfer money to would probably > attract more people. No registering, just pushing the money. > But that counts for me and I don't know if I'm representative... :) Probably not entirely. :-) But many of us here would love to avoid PayPal. Problem is there aren't any alternatives that seem like they'd work. If any one of you knows of a good PayPal alternative, by all means, please speak up!! If you want to send money directly to us, then, well, contact us offlist and ask for our address where you can send an old-school check. :-) -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!>>>>> To donate to SquirrelMail, please visit our new donations and
>>>>> bounties >>>>> page here: >>>>> >>>>> http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance for your generosity! >>>>> >>>>> For the SquirrelMail Team, >>>>> >>>>> Paul Lesniewski > > There are some corporate bodies who use SquirrelMail to make money for > themselves. I know of at least two (and I'm sure there're more) ISPs > who use SquirrelMail as the webmail client for their customers. It's > perhaps not unreasonable for those corporate bodies to pay for the > privilege. Feel free to encourage them to send us financial support, but otherwise, we can't be in the business of demanding that some who use SquirrelMail in corporate or large-scale environments have to pay and others don't. On the other hand, trying to put more emphasis on a paid priority support scheme that such businesses might be likely to join is probably good. There are probably some other, similar models in this realm... feel free to contribute ideas if you have them. > There may be another option. That is, supply SquirrelMail "as is" > under the current licence arrangements to all, but create an "added > value" service of support and customisation - professional services - > to corporate clients for which there would be a charge. Those clients > wouldn't pay for the software, they'd pay for a support contract. Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. We more or less *do* have this now, in the form of "official support" listed on our commercial support page, but most people seem to miss this or think they don't need it. I think in the future, our paid support options need to be made more prominent, including on the download pages. -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!On 6/10/09, p4pixel <squirrel@...> wrote:
> Hi, > > PayPal brings me out of lurk-mode... > > On 9 Jun 2009, at 21:55, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: >> PayPal is just not where I want to >> leave my name. A simple bank account to transfer money to would >> probably >> attract more people. No registering, just pushing the money. >> But that counts for me and I don't know if I'm representative... :) > > X 2 with bells on!! > > I avoid PP like the *plague*. Even then it's not always possible... So what do you use, then? We're most definitely open to suggestions, but I haven't seen any yet. > A bank account is definitely the way to go if it can be arranged. Not > even Google (Checkout) can be trusted but they have *got* to be > better than PP. Direct bank transfers? When was the last time you completed an online transfer (or even completed it offline) using this method? As far as I can tell, this is not a realistic option, both logistically (& maybe fiscally) and for privacy concerns for both us and you. -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!On 6/10/09, p4pixel <squirrel@...> wrote:
> Paul, > On 9 Jun 2009, at 19:19, Paul Lesniewski wrote: > >>> 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.....??? > > Good idea. As long as the free list doesn't wither and die. > > How about you guarantee the 'Sponsors list' a reply within 24h and > help others after that? Thanks for the brainstorm ideas! > Rack the price up on the 'Sponsors list' until the numbers drop > sufficiently to keep the workload down ;-) > > Could you 'Auction' solutions...? We created a bounty page (currently I think it's offline, but no one really seemed to take notice of it anyway). The only thing we need to do different in the future I think is integrate the notion of paid bug fixes tighter into our bug tracker. -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!> I'm going to drop back into lurk-mode in a sec... :-)
No worries. The more ideas the better! >> There are some corporate bodies who use SquirrelMail to make money >> for themselves. I know of at least two (and I'm sure there're more) >> ISPs who use SquirrelMail as the webmail client for their >> customers. It's perhaps not unreasonable for those corporate bodies >> to pay for the privilege. > > Please let's not go there. > > Open Source is Open Source is free. Don't compromise. Right. But the point we can take from this suggestion is to do what we can to encourage corporate users of OSS to give back more than they do (don't). Ideas in that vein are always welcome. > By all means *ask* the ISPs for a contribution but make it voluntary. Right. > How about asking developers to take on paid customisation work and > donate half of the proceeds to the project? This may get *them* more > work and raise money in the process...? Once in a while we get a one-off customization gig, but they aren't very steady. The real challenge here is making it obvious that this is an option and that it's a good way to support the project. I tried to allude to that in my announcement as well. The download page is probably a good place to start... -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> On 6/9/09, Jan Hauke Rahm <info@...> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:19:22AM -0700, Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> >>>>> To donate to SquirrelMail, please visit our new donations and bounties >>>>> page here: >>>>> >>>>> http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance for your generosity! >>>>> >>>>> For the SquirrelMail Team, >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>> >> Just my two cents...: although right now I don't have any money left to >> donate I wouldn't even if I could. PayPal is just not where I want to >> leave my name. A simple bank account to transfer money to would probably >> attract more people. No registering, just pushing the money. >> But that counts for me and I don't know if I'm representative... :) >> > > Probably not entirely. :-) But many of us here would love to avoid > PayPal. Problem is there aren't any alternatives that seem like > they'd work. If any one of you knows of a good PayPal alternative, by > all means, please speak up!! > > If you want to send money directly to us, then, well, contact us > offlist and ask for our address where you can send an old-school > check. :-) > > bet most people averse to PayPal probably already have an Amazon account. https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=paynow/pricing Jeff Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-devel mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-devel@... List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel |
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