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Date:      Tue, 03 Mar 1998 13:30:01 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Fund 
Message-ID:  <199803032130.NAA17979@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:13:15 %2B0100." <6307.888955995@verdi.nethelp.no> 

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> I wish somebody would think seriously about that. It would be *far* easier
> for me to donate money using my VISA card than with a check. (Not to mention
> the fact that the fee for a $25 check in the bank here is not much smaller
> than the value of the check itself...)

Try a postal money order.

Seriously, accepting credit card donations is expensive work.  Aside 
from the 5% cut that the bank gets, you have to treat the money like 
it's on elastic.  

And unless you have someone else handling it for you, you won't get a 
bank's attention until you're talking in six figures a year.
-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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