[Dx-qsl] Help now or lose it

Wed Aug 14 22:43:01 2002

Dave--
I guess I'm a dead horse. Please stop beating me! People will donate or
not, as they wish. If the service fails, it's because it wasn't valued
highly by enough users. If it really means a lot to YOU, then YOU
should donate more and quit trying to coerce the rest of us to give. 
Your scolding won't make any difference except to piss off the people
who have already decided. 
It's like trying to convince a born again Christian that there is no
God. You won't change anybody's opinion. 
For your information, one of the local ham clubs I belong to has already
made a donation for all 100 members. If you want to call that one
donation, I guess that's your business.
--Barrie, W6DX
Dave Haney wrote:
>> Folks,
> I really hate to keep beating the same dead horse, but I was truly
> stunned to learn a pitiful 500 hams (out of 200,000 US QSL.NET users) have
> contributed to help keep QSL.NET viable with approximately 7,000ドル in
> donations. That means that 99.75 %.of our subscribed have contributed
> nothing, zilch, nada....
>> I am not going to ask for more of you to do the right thing, but
> consider the words in an old Joni Mitchell song: "You don't know what you've
> got till it's gone." I know hams are traditionally thrifty, but sending a
> few bucks to keep something as valuable as QSL.NET is a pretty good
> investment.
>> Don't think someone else is going to pay your share; they are busy thinking
> the same thing about you.
>> 73
> Dave Haney
> W3SJ