Re: ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!
Jeff Ross <[email protected]>
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Paul Lesniewski wrote: > On 6/9/09, Jan Hauke Rahm <[email protected]> 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. :-) > > Amazon Simple Pay has a lot of options, is cheaper than PayPal, and I'll 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: [email protected] List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-devel