10 Jun
2005
10 Jun
'05
2:28 p.m.
From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at
randy482.com>
From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:51 PM
I would call scam over stated, I am sure it is a "scheme".
Revenue generation is a serious business, everyone has seen pictures of
starving children in Africa. This is necessary to get the $ rolling in.
They never point out that after administration fees and the "help" of local
officials just a tiny percentage helps anyone.
If people donated $100,000,000.00 to help with the data recovery who
believes that one $0.01 would every get used to recover any of the data, not
me. The money would end up on other projects that never get off the ground.
That's just the nature of most "charitable" contributions.
Personally I donate to charities but I check them out first, being a well
known name doesn't guarantee anything.
Hi
I would suspect that it is the writer of the article
that has simply taken bits and pieces of what was said
and made a "STORY" out of it. It wouldn't be the first
time. They were most likely looking for more funding
but that doesn't make a "STORY".
Dwight
>>>> "jim" == jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> writes:
jim> I have met these people and visit with them every year at the
jim> JPL open house, and this is most certainly not the case. The
jim> data division is very serious about conserving the data, and
jim> they would do anything they can to convert it.
So does that mean the Planetary Society article that started this
whole thread was just a fund raising scam?
paul