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[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
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>From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com>
>Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:51 PM
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>>>>>>> "jim" == jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> writes:
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>> 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
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>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.
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>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