Why not put the request out to sponsors and see if there is any interest. If not, we can consider waiving it entirely. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Re: AGA2004 > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, S. Hieber wrote: > > > If you think there may be many more of these, maybe we > > should put a note on the contest entry page? If it's only a > > few, then it's not worth changing the page. > >... > > Scott noted in a private e-mail that this was just meant for me to read, > but I might as well throw this to the whole group. We are on our way to > having a record number of entrants from outside the US to the contest this > year, and while this is very cool for the AGA and for me personally to > view the different special enhanced characters on the same web page for > the first time, it also means that we're having a record number of > inquiries like the one Scott quoted... folks from countries who PayPal > won't deal with. I'm wondering if there's a way to deal with this, aside > from what I'm doing now, which is to tell them to mail $5 cash. > > It had actually crossed my mind to waive the fee for folks outside of > PayPal's service area, or maybe look for a few "angels" willing to sponsor > people who can't otherwise pay. One $50 sponsor would cover em all. > > - Erik > > -- > Erik Olson > erik at thekrib dot com > _______________________________________________ > AGA-mcm mailing list > AGA-mcm@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm > _______________________________________________ AGA-mcm mailing list AGA-mcm@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-mcm