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From: wab@Rational.COM (Bill Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: First Issue of Effector
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Date: 3 Apr 91 06:33:30 GMT
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I got the first issue of Effector last week sometime and I
confess I chucked into the junk mail pile and only looked at
it tonight.  Aside from the obvious kudos, like that it is a
very well-written, coherent, and valuable newsletter, I would
like to relate something unique about it that means a lot to
me.  Once I got it through my skull that this isn't more
liberal junk mail and is, in fact, a nascent organization I
am vitally interested in, I looked for the dunning notice.
There isn't one.  No EFF equivalent of "If you, Bill Baker,
don't send $30 today, five thousand Sudanese will die
horrible, lingering deaths."  Just this worthwhile
broadside.  Gratis.  Here I am, checkbook in hand,
all set to donate, but they don't want it.  

For that alone the founders of EFF deserve a big round of
applause.  Most non-profits turn immediately to repaying
founders loans and ensuring income for staff salaries.  To
resist that temptation, if only in the first periodical issue,
is truly laudable.

My checkbook is still open, but you guys better hurry with the
"Dear Friend" letters.  After this posting I'm going to be up
to my ass in Greenpeace notices.