Thank you sierrathedog04 for expressing your opinion. I do not agree with you, but I ++ you for expressing it.

I think "charitable contribution" should not fool us. Somebody needs to pay for bandwidth - and recently we have more users, and site is becoming slower. So if we do not contribute, site will get even more slower, and maybe even worse.

I do not see any problems with concept if vroom or somebody else is making profit from this site. But I seriously doubt anybody is making much of profit. :(

See rumors on Tye's article (tye)Re: On 'Donations Gladly Accepted'.

I do not want to bother to establish PayPal account just for Perl Monks, so I cannot offer this way.

Is for you, sierrathedog04 so important that Perl Monks will be established as legal charity to you can deduct your X dollars contributed from your taxes? I do not plan to contribute so much that it will make financial sense to bother with this either, I'll better spend one hour more learning Perl better - became better expert in my craft.

For me, this is like fund raiser for Public Radio: you decide to sent contribution, because you enjoy information provided.

Consider how much you spent monthly on daily newspapers - and I doubt newspapers are more important for maintaining your income-generating skills, that PM site is. So why be so cheap? Why pretend that PM site is not "clean" enough to accept my couple dollars?

If I want just to send personal check for say $20, where I should send it? Are there any dangers with that (I am new in USA - please warn me if there are some)?

pmas

To make errors is human. But to make million errors per second, you need a computer.

In reply to Re3: On 'Donations Gladly Accepted' by pmas
in thread On 'Donations Gladly Accepted' by sierrathedog04

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