From arj@nvg.org Wed Jun 14 11:01:06 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FqZfj-0004ls-Ad for llg-board@lojban.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:01:05 -0700 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no [129.241.210.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955A294789 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:00:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:00:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Arnt Richard Johansen X-X-Sender: arj@hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Raising money: we should tell people how donations will be spent In-Reply-To: <20060614145419.GJ23763@miranda.org> Message-ID: References: <20060614145419.GJ23763@miranda.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 122 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Jay F Kominek wrote: >> One specific point: the page >> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The+Complete+Lojban+Language >> says that "We acknowledge all donations over $250 in accordance with IRS >> regulations, and other donations by request." Now, why on Earth would we >> turn down a donation just because it is less than $250? IIRC we have >> hardly ever received donations above that sum. > > Hm? I think you've misunderstood this. It isn't a matter of turning them > down. We just don't automatically write a receipt unless it is over the > $250 limit the IRS has set, instead they have to ask for a receipt if they > want one. Oh. I didn't realise you needed a receipt for that. Maybe we need to replace "acknowledge" with something else. Of course, if you say that this is bleedingly obvious for anyone who lives in the U.S., by all means let it stand. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ Confusion among -ate ~ -ant pairs is even more prominate, since both are legitimant suffixes. --Adam Albright