As far as I am aware, there's no intent that Linux-Ottawa folk should have to pay
for joining a mailing list. There was a note in one earlier post (some months ago)
that NCF had some legacy setup that restricted some of their facilities to "members"
and that we might have to sort out details.
JN
On 2024-01-25 16:54, Katherine Mcmillan wrote:
I am in agreement with JF
Sincerely,
Katie
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I would call this a MAJOR obstacle. If Freenet/NCF is hoping to get money from everyone joining this list on an annual
basis, although OCLUG gave them thousands of dollars already, we should dissociate from Freenet/NCF. The decision to
send the money to NCF was an honest mistake, but let's not keep our dependency on NCF. Who knows what else they will ask
from the members in the future ?
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 4:37 PM Ian! D. Allen <idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca <mailto:idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca>> wrote:
Re:
- Yes, I'd call it an obstacle
- I agree [...] Is not going to work.
- I agree. While the money is not a problem for me it is sort of offensive.
The new person joining does not have to pay this fee. Imagine this:
"Hello and welcome to OCLUG. We have teamed up with the local Free-Net
to sponsor a mailing list account for you so that you may participate
in discussions around Linux and other Free-Libre Open Source Software
[FLOSS]. We hope that at some point you become a paid-up member of
OCLUG to help support this and other FLOSS projects. Welcome aboard."
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