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Sunday, January 15, 2006
[Laughter, the best medicine...]
I received a hilarious email today. Here's what it says:Dear Locksley,
We have just recently entered our second year online, and I want to take a moment to ask you for your support of our free service.
Putfile has experienced a rapid rate of growth and development over the past year, growing from a small image hosting site to an enormous free multimedia hosting community with over 12 million uploads.
Putfile is run by a group of volunteers who donate their time providing everything from software development to server management and content moderation. We strive to create a safe and fun environment for people of all ages to enjoy. As part of this quality experience Putfile does not employ the use of flashing adverts or annoying popups, whilst using such advertising media could cover the shortfalls in our budget they would most certainly damage the user experience.
With bandwidth and server hardware bills continually growing at a rapid rate, we now need your support more than ever. Please consider a generous donation so that we can raise the funds needed to keep us online and further improve our free services.
To make a donation please visit: http://www.putfile.com/donate.php
Thank you from all of us at Putfile! Back in December, Singapore hanged an Australia drug trafficker and Putfile promptly cut off it's service to all Singapore users in protest. I managed to sign up for an account (which I never use) after they've made the announcement. Nice filtering system guys...
Still, in spite of everything, I find the line in bold extremely funny. I've never came across anyone asking for donations to ask for a "generous" contribution. It's usually any amount will do. If we need to contribute "generously" so that you can continue to provide "free" services, how would the service still be free?
^^^ by Locksley @ 10:21 AM.
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