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Re: w00t! Fund Drive for LUGNET Servers
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Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:29:56 GMT
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You don't think Lugnet is edumacational?   ;-)

I certainly do.

Matthew Miller wrote:

Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
   This is intriguing.  Not to go too far off-topic, but would turning
   LUGNET non-profit make our donations (at least for those of us in the
   United States) in the future tax-deductible?

I'm no tax expert, let alone a lawyer. But I'm not sure that Lugnet would
fit under the 501(c)(3) definition -- a "charitable, educational,
religious, literary, or scientific". And given that words in legalese
don't mean what they mean in plain English....

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  Re: w00t! Fund Drive for LUGNET Servers
 
(...) Well, that's where the legal-words thing comes in. Maybe that category is actually broad enough to include us -- or could be, simply with the addition of a new mission statement. But maybe it has to be more focused than that. Maybe it fits (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)

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  Re: w00t! Fund Drive for LUGNET Servers
 
(...) I'm no tax expert, let alone a lawyer. But I'm not sure that Lugnet would fit under the 501(c)(3) definition -- a "charitable, educational, religious, literary, or scientific". And given that words in legalese don't mean what they mean in (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.finance)

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