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 -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c