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anon:
[ This Message was edited by: KarenZ on 2003-10-18 13:50 ]

Anonymous:
I went to the their site today and it didn't cost me anything.   Maybe I just missed it or Melissa did.

MelissaR:
You can't access anything without paying a login fee. For being a kid, and being responsible for my own credit card, I can't risk putting it into the computer. And yah, like Deb said...this  definitely makes me distrust ISAC, why are they a profiteering organization? Fornits isn't, and they generate a lot of assistance for people. To tell you the honest truth I thought it was nice that there was an non-profit organization backing this up, generated purely on the support of it's members. ISAC has now misrepresented themselves. But now that I think about it, what does ISAC do anyway? They have no way of routing people to communicate with eachother and get eachothers opinions, they simply generate propaganda. Unfortunately, the same type of propaganda WWASP uses to promote their programs. I thought the TB report was good and  I don't discredit that at all, but that is probably the only semi-adequate source of information I've seen from ISAC. Furthermore, to be perfectly honest, ISAC has so little credibility at this point that the TB transcript was obviously not taken seriously. Based simply on what was in that document, if it was taken seriously, I believe the US and Jamaican government would be forced to launch a full investigation....pretty much all I've seen happen is people reading it and saying "Oh, that's nice, GO ISAC..." Alas, to the government, ISAC is not a credible organization so they're not acknowledged. I think I'm going to stick to Amnesty International.

Anonymous:
It's costing ISAC money to run their service.  Websites get charged based on the traffic they generate.  If ISAC is getting overwhelmed by freeloaders, it's *reasonable* for them to ask for a *small* fee---and $10 is small---to cover their webhosting expenses.

When I talked to Shelby about a school I was concerned about, she took the time to run down a former employee of it for me---she didn't owe me anything, but she helped.

If they provide services to those outside their own dues paying (if they charge dues) membership, then they have a right to charge.

Anyone who would consider charging $10 for that to be "money grubbing" would come across to me as being being spoiled and whiny.

This doesn't look like greed to me.  This looks like an attempt to weed out website hits (and thus costs) to screen casual visitors out from serious ones so they can either cut their ISP fees *or* cover the costs for all the site traffic.

Bandwidth ain't free.

anon:
[ This Message was edited by: KarenZ on 2003-10-18 13:51 ]

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