I am so sorry for all of the confusion about the funding of our Flickr account! I simply misread something and jumped to the wrong conclusion!
So please..... Do not try to set up an account to reimburse me! The cost is really not an issue for me, because it is very small. (Less than $20 a year) What IS important to me is that you do not use our lace Flickr account as personal storage for every picture you have. It is easy enough to set up your own account if that is what you need. And unless you overload your own account, it is free. But please do use the Arachne account to highlight WIPs and remove (your own) old pictures as new ones are created! Happy Lacemaking! Clay Sent from my iPad > On Jan 17, 2019, at 1:42 AM, Gabriele Patzner <gabri...@sprouts.org> wrote: > > Hello all, > > like Susan (and I suppose many more) I wasn’t aware that cost for hosting the > pics was carried by a single member. > > Thank you, Clay. > > I guess you had first offers of reimbursement and I would add mine to that. I > just need to know who is able and willing to collect. If I give five dollars > only 19 others need to do so and we financed a whole year on flickr for > instance. > > Sending money to the other end of the world is really no problem with > services like paypal existing. BTW: For making single payments paypal can be > used without opening an account. > > I suggest this because while for some the pruning of the archive is a valid > idea - and maybe some photos really are put up only to illustrate a current > discussion - others cherish the idea of having an archive. > > And I suggest this because there are people working for flickr and those need > to make a living and someone needs to pay for that. Server hosting does > generate costs for machines, housing, and electricity, too. Let’s be aware of > that and use it conciously. We are many, surely we can pay for a service that > serves us well? > > But as I understood this, this is not the only problem. There is the > collecting and billing needing to be handled, and also the work on the > account to be done. If there are no volunteers for that, then the only option > is for everyone to get their very own flickr accounts (or whatever) and host > their own photos - for free - and put up a link to it in their signatures. > > Greetings, Gabriele > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
