Phyllis and Jim wrote:
I am posting on behalf to the moderation team for rec.ponds.moderated
to invite all rpm posters to help fund the moderation software for the
group.

It costs $360 per year to rent the ReadyStump software that is used
to
moderate posts to RPM. The 2007 cost was covered by donations and it
is time to collect money to cover 2008.


Good googly moogly! :-0

This is just advice (but keep in mind, it's advice from someone who
moderates 2 other Usenet groups; rec.hunting and rec.hunting.dogs):
Find another software program!

People have been moderating newsgroups since the inception of Usenet,
and doing so with free tools. Now maybe, if I were really, REALLY
convinced that a particular tools was really good, I might see paying a
ONE TIME FEE for a program. But even that ONE TIME FEE would be less
than what this program is costing.


PS: I use a Listserv (tm - www.lsoft.com) email list as my moderation
tool. Besides being free (since the software is already hosted here at
my school), it allows non-usenet folks to participate by creating an
email mirror.

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