Rutvik-
Could you turn off the Return Receipt Flag in your mail headers- Is it
nescessary to send it t everyone in the list - You cannot enjoy the sight of
so many needless mail receipts from 100 odd people!
Shanker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rutvik Doshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: ILUG-Cal member subscriptions was --> Re: [ilug-cal]
Professional services (long)
> Hi
>
>
> > Very true.... to illustrate the point -> during the meeting on 9th of
May,
> 1999, I managed to collect Rs. 1700 for our
> > domain registration funds from the members, the collection of the
> remaining Rs. 1500 took me more than two months to
> > gather together, not to say anything about the innumerable phone calls
to
> the people who had pledged to contribute,
> > numerous reminder emails, number of visits to people's places to collect
> the money. Let me tell you it was no easy task,
> > particularly if approached in an unstructured, ad-hoc manner. And on top
> of that unless everything is documented in
> > absolute black-and-white, questions may arise about the handling of the
> money and the integrity of the people involved.
>
> Yes, you are right , all of us are busy with our own work and we cannot
> expect anybody to spend all his time just chasing members for their
> subscription fee. Chasing peolpe also does come at a very heavy cost
> phone, email , visit and not to talk about the time spend ). Who will
bear
> the cost of chasing ?
>
> The only way out that I can see is to scrap the idea of subscriptions and
> build up fund by voluntary contributions from willing members. But again
> the question of accountability and transparency arises , for which i think
> we need to register ourselves as a society.
>
> Indra, if i remember correctly you were talking about a uniform
constitution
> for all the local LUGs in India. In the last meeting you had said that it
> was in the draft stage, what is its status now ?
>
>
> >
> > They do at times.... for example Manash contributed his share when he
came
> to Calcutta to attend LI- '99... Making the
> > collections from IITKGP could perhaps be handled as like JU there can be
> someone of our group to take care of it
> > locally. Anyway, AFAIK there are just about 3 members from KGP on the
> list....
>
> I had used IIT KGP just as an example, what i meant was that we have many
> members who dont stay in Calcutta how do we manage to collect money from
> them ( unless they send a Money Order/Draft/Cheque etc own their own).
>
> -rutvik
>
>
>
>
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