Theo de Raadt wrote:
Theo de Raadt wrote:
Theo de Raadt wrote:
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Decreasing CD sales means the margins have to be adjusted. More of
you are relying on our FTP services, and also donating less.
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Hey Theo just a quick suggestion to increase the cash donations:
Why aren't the web-order-cash-donations (no longer) added to the
donations.html page ? Sad but unfortunately true there are petty people
like me for whom that actually matters.
They are, but there is a lot of latency. Yes, that really sucks.
Perhaps I will take a shot at 'pushing' a lot of them forward today.
Yup me too petty and whiner.
I have been sending $20 a month for something over a year. I was on the
donation page, then gone. Sent mail to Austin a couple of times, got
peevish and wanted to stop the donation ... then remembered, I don't do
it for credit. I do it so the project can continue, or in this case buy
pizza for one day of one hackathon once a year. I order CD, poster and
T-shirt for every release, not because I think you care but because I
get fantastic value for dollar.
Yours is a special case. Yours comes as that weird mailed cheque,
and I did add you. Bizzare, but I never commited it, because ... I don't
know how. Bizzare. Maybe it conflicted by the time I wanted to.
The big issue these days is donation fraud -- I'm not joking. About
20-30% of donations by credit/paypal come in, and then the transaction
does not clear (credit card) or gets backed out of later (credit card
or paypal). We have been trying to not cope with that through a
process of "deleting names later", and that has introduced latency.
But I don't know how to tell the public those figures. It is
unbelievably stupid.
I did not know that. You have already spent way more time on this than
the donation in question is worth. I do it this way because it is
automated from my perspective and therefore reliable, and allows me to
retain control of the transaction. If there is a better way I would be
happy to change.
