After watching the thread -

   Max's State of the Union

grow to over 500 responses (that BIG in Mudcat terms)
I found myself asking the simple question -

What's our Financial Model
   Non-Profit
   Not For Profit
   Profit (or Loss)?
   Generous Tax-Deductible Unregistered Charity
   Personal Entrepreneurial Model
   Other

Simply put -
   Let's add a Subscription Service/Charge Card/PayPal-like
   Credit Card front end to this CYBER MUSIC FORUM and make
   it a pay-as-you-like enterprise. Do any of us KNOW (or CARE)
   about the FINANCES behind running this Forum?

Don't know how many MudCatters ever encounter
    THE HUMAN JUKEBOX
    GRIMES POTZNIKOFF
    GHIRADELLI SQUARE
    SF, CA.

The man just to play on demand (a Trumpet Melody line) from
inside a CardBoard Refrigerator carton. 25 cents got you a tune.

So let's GROW UP (Financially Speaking) and MOVE BEYOND the
hapless SPARE CHANGE FUND DRIVE SOLICITATION model.

This FORUM deserves better than that.

Flames Off

voyager
'A Yearly Subscriber'