re: Sponsorship of club services

[TMatsumu@example.com]

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Craig,
  I think it's completely appropriate.  Thanks again to TWICs for hosting 
the list.

Ted

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>From owner-tlug@example.com, on 7/12/96 10:49 AM:

It is my belief that the only way for TLUG to continue to prosper is
to seek corporate sponsorship of club services.  One thing we need is
sponsorship for space to have a meeting.  TWICS can get space at the
Foreign Correspondents Club if members pay about 500 yen per meeting.
However, this does not strike me as a good long term solution.  It would
be better if we could get a corporation to sponsor the meetings long
term and have everyone avoid paying membership dues.  

It occurred to me that this mailing list also requires a commitment 
from a company.  TWICS now sponsors the list and maintains it mainly
because I volunteer for it.  However, I think that this list would
benefit from a long-term commitment.  One way to justify this commitment
is to have a brief advertisement at the end of the list.

The company benefits from having advertising.  The organization benefits
from having a stable, supported, mailing list system.  

In this way, the company can justify things like allocating time to
upgrading the mailing list software, clearing up problems, etc.

The proposed advertisement should be shown below.

If there is criticism of this rational, please let me know.  

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