Sad news, Philip Sbrogna

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Charles Farinella <cfarinella at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.ledgertranscript.com/article/philip-sbrogna
> 
>   So I propose we collect any donations people might want to make and
> give to Reading Is Fundamental, per the above.
> 
>   Does anyone know any good way to do that in the Internet age?  I
> suppose we could just pass a literal hat at the next LUG meeting, but
> it seems like someone has prolly come up with a website or something
> for this sort of thing by now.

I've heard of people *trying* to do this with PayPal,
but it didn't work out well--the trouble being that, unless
you go through the process of forming a legal entity
for the purpose of collecting and disbursing the funds,
it's indistinguishable from a scam. As such, from what I've
heard, PayPal tends to shut these things down; and I
wouldn't bet on it going any more smoothly through other
sites of the same vein.

It's not particularly romantic, but someone could just post a
"make cheques payable to..." notice to the mail-list....


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