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From: Thomas Heide Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:15:41 +0100
>On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:32:59 -0500
>"Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I'm actually quite serious. Perhaps they could keep track of our
>>contributions and give back a small percent against future
>>repairs.
>
>Well, *that* would probably be an administrative hell of
>dimensions to manage. If I was to chip in it should solely be for
>the fact that it would actually *increase* the possibility of
>getting gear maintained in the future. I trust that Clint and
>John spend their efforts better on repairing cameras than on
>doing bookkeping....
My thoughts exactly. It's worth $100 or so to me just to know the
stuff's in good hands and that some part that's needed to fix
something I broke may actually be available a year or two hence.
Kind of like insurance: I don't expect a rebate if something
happens and I need it.
>>has to be a way to make this work. There are roughly 600
>>members here. If we each put in $30, that would be an $18000 bid.
>
>Well, I'd say we are about 500 members or so - there are dublettes
>among the subscriptions and such :)
Yeah, I'm one of the double-dippers, for reasons not worth
explaining. Does that mean I have to chip in twice if we do this?
Walt
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