Theos-Talk Archives (October 2000 Message tt00014)

The payment is $5/month, I believe. This means that, in order for
everybody to help pay, we would be paying more in postage than we would
have to donate per year.

Bart Lidofsky

Dennis Kier wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eldon Tucker <eldon@theosophy.com>
> To: <theos-talk@egroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 6:01 PM
> Subject: Theos-World technical note on using theos-talk on egroups.com
> 
> > The egroups.com site provides free hosting for mailing lists.
> > One thing they do, though, is put a few-line ad in each message
> > that is sent out. There is an option where the list manager
> > can pay a nominal fee and the ad's won't appear in the messages
> > anymore. They mention that once payment is made, it can take
> > up to two weeks for the request to be processed. Payment has
> > been submitted for the "no ads" option for theos-talk, and we
> > should hopefully be -- or soon be -- at a point where there
> > won't be any ads in the messages.
> >
> 
> I am on another of the egroups that has those adds. They are usually
> at the tail end of the messages, and are easy to ignore. I would say
> that any payment is a waste. Those adds are easy to ignore, or to
> delete when you are replying to a message.
> 
> Dennis Kier