Re: [MLUG] @home went dark.

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > > Right.  Some universities have started doing e-mail forwarding for
> > > alumni. They should be more stable.  Maybe mizzou could do that too.
> >
> > Well, the catch is that you generally have to give the university some
> > money for them to be nice to you like that. :-)
>
> I don't think you do, but it is true that they are all about money.
> They want donations from alumni.  And there is no doubt that they will
> send e-mail to alumni asking them to make donations and reminding them
> of their excellent free service.  If they don't get your money,
> they'll make you feel guilty!  ;-)

Or they'll just cut you off.  I only gave small randomly spaced
contributions to my alma mater, and they just flat out stopped sending me
the alumni magazine and contacting me for donations.  Now, I could feel
guilty about this, but I can't say at the moment that I do.  So I guess it
depends on the school and the student involved.  In my case, there was an
obvious cost/benefit decision to make, and they made it. :-)

jking

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