permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Sean Maley wrote:

> What if Yahoo! turned around and started asking for money (like what meetup 
> did).  If they can't pay for the service by selling ads, they need to charge 
> for the service.  They need to pay their McMansion mortgage, too.  Until we 
> change this cultural pattern, everyone has to work, work, work, ... and pay, 
> pay, pay, ...
>
> Besides, there isn't a tool offered - Yahoo!, Gmail, etc - that the 
> Permaculture community can't provide for themselves.  The only reason to use 
> one of these tools would be to advertise Permaculture as a brand name.  Given 
> our objectives, this logic has merit and we shouldn't stop with one service 
> or another.

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