<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2015 at 01:10, Chris Caputo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:secretary@peeringdb.com" target="_blank">secretary@peeringdb.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think low-cost ($5?) annual fee-based individual memberships are an<br>
interesting solution to what started this thread, assuming you mean in<br>
addition to organizational members. Folks could pay the fee for others,<br>
as a way of supporting their volunteering.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Couldn't disagree strongly enough. I'd extend my opposition to this as far as I would never want to see PeeringDB mandate payment of funds from any of its users. To fundraise, sure. To solicit donations, sure. To charge for any kind of service -- electoral, database access or other, would vastly diminish the value of PeeringDB.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">M</div> </div></div></div></div>