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Subject: 
memberships
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:16:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
A valid concern, but not the one bugging me most right now.  How will
LUGNET be funded through 2025?  How will it be funded through 2000?
I want to plan for this.  Are paying memberships coming up in the future,

Here's part of the answer to that:

   http://www.lugnet.com/admin/plan/8.html


and if so, what kind of dues are we looking at?

What kind of dues to you want to look at?  It'll be very economical to join
officially, but it will also include voluntary donations mechanisms if you
want to pay amounts beyond the default.  In other words, it will be tailored
so that you pay what you feel the system/service is worth to you.  That might
be $x once in your whole life, or $x once + $y every so often, or whatever
you want to come up with.  The minimum $x has to be calculated with growth
in mind and not be too large or too small.

--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: memberships
 
(...) For the record, I want to pay $x once and pay $y as a cut of what I sell using your auction software. Maybe even a fairly hefty cut. I would think that this would on (or near) the top of your priority list from the perspective of making LUGNET (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: memberships
 
(...) If there was an official membership for Lugnet, would anybody that wanted to use its services have to join? What I mean is that if someone like myself just wanted to read through the news, would they have to pay and/or become a member? Greg (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Is it Just Me or is the RTL on its way out!?
 
(...) A valid concern, but not the one bugging me most right now. How will LUGNET be funded through 2025? How will it be funded through 2000? I want to plan for this. Are paying memberships coming up in the future, and if so, what kind of dues are (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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