Re: [SM-DEVEL] ANNOUNCE: SquirrelMail Needs Your Help - Please Donate!

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On 6/9/09, Jan Hauke Rahm <in...@jh...> 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
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