On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 02:15:38PM -0500, Jon Lebkowsky wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thank you for those who offer, but there is no such thing as pro bono
> > hosting, and any donated services from a corporation count as illegal
> > corporate donations.
> 
> A couple of points:
> 
> 1) "no such thing as pro bono hosting": I assume you must mean that's it's
> something you can't accept. There is definitely such a thing, because we do
> it all the time. If you mean "no such thing as a free lunch," that's sort of
> true, and in this case we figure it serves our self-interest to keep the
> U.S. from crumbling. :)

I believe that what she means is "hosting provided by a corporation for free
would be a campaign contribution", and I believe (though IANAL, election or
otherwise) that it would actually be a contribution to whichever organization
was *running* the website -- which might or not be DFA.

I rather suspect some tuning of the FEC laws will be necessary after this
cycle.

Cheers,
-- jra
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