Craig Bradney wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 17:47, Gregory Pittman wrote: > >> Maciej Hanski wrote: >> >>> Gregory Pittman napisa?(a): >>> >>>> How do we know, or is there a mechanism to give us feedback about what >>>> our donation(s) would actually be used for? I realize that the wiki page >>>> talks about what is needed, but by the time money is donated, it might >>>> actually go to something else. >>>> >>> Given how hard it is to get an account number from one of the Scribus >>> guys including Eirik aka ltning from anduin.net who hosts our wiki and >>> bug tracker sites (see this bug report >>> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4387 to see what I mean), I must >>> say, I simply trust them. >>> >> It's not a matter of distrust. I was going to make a donation just now, >> to see how it worked. One thing firefox tells me as I get to the credit >> card page is that the information is not encrypted, which has me a >> little worried. I've had an issue come up with international card fraud >> (someone took a trip from England to Paris on my card number), and you >> quickly find out that the rules of liability are more fuzzy. >> > > The donate page to Scribus hosted anduin servers is encrypted, however as the > note reads on the top of the page, it is held within a subframe on the page. > This frame is encrypted. > > Eirik has graciously supported Scribus via his servers since I joined. I have > know him since long before that, and when I joined the dev team a few years > ago one of the first things I did was to set up the Mantis tracker using his > servers, and since then have come the wiki, and some dev team collaboration > and email areas, public cvs and www. has moved to his servers this year. > Well, that's good enough for me. The worry wasn't what's happening on his end, it's in between. I get so annoyed with PayPal spam (I know it's not their fault) I just don't want to deal with them -- at least I know all the PayPal messages are bogus.
Greg
