Spam and the [ILUG] Constitution

[Breathnach, Proinnsias(Dublin)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Hary Walsh [SMTP:hwalsh at shannon.tellabs.com]
> Subject:	Re: Spam and the [ILUG] Constitution
> 
> A few questions/points.
> 
> o ) Why would ILUG need a subscription fee?  What does ILUG need to
>   pay for?  Why does it need to generate income?
> 
ILUG does not, and does not intend to have a subscription fee, rather the
suggestion is to charge the likes of Global Knowledge a small sum if they're
going to use our facilities to advertise their wares, there is no point in
our paying for their advertising ...

Income / money for the ILUG will allow us to organise events on the scale of
LAID more frequently, LAID was a great success, but we can't assume that
we'll always have corporate backers to that extent. Running / having the
domain also costs money, and although it's not a fortune, it is a cost. As
for the machine hosting the website, it is Colm's personal machine, if Colm
decided that we were all a shower of ***** (unlikley but how and ever) we
wouldn't have a website to argue over, nor a mailing list.

There are various other things that cost money, ask any university society
what they spend money on ...

> o ) What work is needed on the web site?
> 
What isn't there that you'd like to see ?

> o ) Can Caolan be interviewed next?  :)
> 
That I'll second ...

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> hjw
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