I agree with the social media idea. But we need to determine what our "target market" is or we will generate a lot of people who sign up but are not really interested in history or have much to contribute.Any? Do we want just "historians" amateur or professional?? Just anyone interested in AA History? Just anyone in AA?
I will be happy to put something on the sites I participate in--once we come up with who we want to spread the word to and what we want to say...
"To those AA History buffs who participated in the now defunct Yahoo "AA History Lovers" AAHL Group, or just for those interested in AA history, the new site with all of the AAHL archives can be found at? ________________ and you can sign up there."
Needs polish--depending on what we want to say and to whom.?
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:08 AM Greg H Mahan via Groups.Io <ghmahan= [email protected]> wrote: I'd suggest using every form of social media out there...
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On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 10:19:01 PM EST, Thom R. < thombone@...> wrote:
Thank you.?
And now it's time to advertise that we're here and what our purpose is. People should at least be told about it so that they can choose whether to come here or not. Any help that anyone reading this can give would be appreciated, because we all win when we work together.
Thom
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I'd suggest using every form of social media out there...
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On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 10:19:01 PM EST, Thom R. <thombone@...> wrote:
Thank you.?
And now it's time to advertise that we're here and what our purpose is. People should at least be told about it so that they can choose whether to come here or not. Any help that anyone reading this can give would be appreciated, because we all win when we work together.
Thom
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What a great response! Thanks to all
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This sticky will keep track of who donated what because we should have no secrets here, of course. Therefore, every donation will be posted here. In that way, if you donate you'll be able to see that it has been acknowledged. Thus we can all keep track of the money together. Right now, our current? goal is $220 so that we can buy the premium features for one year and really start to build this site.
Once we reach the target amount I will immediately turn on premium features by subscribing to them for all of us.
To donate, simply PayPal to:
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... and please remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT "pay for goods or services" because if you do choose "pay for goods or services" then PayPal will charge a fee. If you choose "send to a friend" then there will be no fee and we will receive the full amount. Thank you.
Donations so far, so be updated as they come in:
AMOUNT NEEDED: $220
DONATIONS:?
Thom R. $20 - 1-28-20
Anonymous - $20 - 1-28-20
Patrick E. - $10.57 - 1-28-20
Smith H -?$20 - 1-28-20
Brain E -?$20 - 1-28-20
Mary L - $20 - 1-28-20
Mary C - $20 - 1-28-20
Wayne R - $10- 1-28-20
Theron B - $10 - 1-28-20
Michael M - $20 - 1-28-20
Paul H - $40 - 1-28-20
Greg M - $20 - 1-28-20
Mike B -?$20 - 1-28-20
David N -?$20 - 1-28-20
Total: $270.57
AMOUNT NEEDED STILL: -50.57? A CREDIT BALANCE! WE HAVE Enough for 2020. :)?
We will apply the credit balance towards next year.
Thank you we will do the upgrade now and we will get to work together on building up our library Etc.
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On Jan 28, 2020, at 18:08, Thom R. <thombone@...> wrote:
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[Reason: Explaining the flood of donations we have received which is now covered are expenses in being able to upgrade to premium already! Wow! ??]
This sticky will keep track of who donated what because we should have no secrets here, of course. Therefore, every donation will be posted here. In that way, if you donate you'll be able to see that it has been acknowledged. Thus we can all keep track of the money together. Right now, our current? goal is $220 so that we can buy the premium features for one year and really start to build this site. Once we reach the target amount I will immediately turn on premium features by subscribing to them for all of us. To donate, simply PayPal to: thombone@... ... and please remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT "pay for goods or services" because if you do choose "pay for goods or services" then PayPal will charge a fee. If you choose "send to a friend" then there will be no fee and we will receive the full amount. Thank you. Donations so far, so be updated as they come in: AMOUNT NEEDED: $220 DONATIONS:? Thom R. $20 - 1-28-20 Anonymous - $20 - 1-28-20 Patrick E. - $10.57 - 1-28-20 Smith H -?$20 - 1-28-20 Brain E -?$20 - 1-28-20 Mary L - $20 - 1-28-20 Mary C - $20 - 1-28-20 Wayne R - $10- 1-28-20 Theron B - $10 - 1-28-20 Michael M - $20 - 1-28-20 Paul H - $40 - 1-28-20 Greg M - $20 - 1-28-20 Mike B -?$20 - 1-28-20 David N -?$20 - 1-28-20 Total: $270.57 AMOUNT NEEDED STILL: -50.57? A CREDIT BALANCE! WE HAVE Enough for 2020. :)? We will apply the credit balance towards next year. Thank you we will do the upgrade now and we will get to work together on building up our library Etc.
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Thank you.?
And now it's time to advertise that we're here and what our purpose is. People should at least be told about it so that they can choose whether to come here or not. Any help that anyone reading this can give would be appreciated, because we all win when we work together.
Thom
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Congratulations on the hard work, clear delineation of goals, and transparency. Of course the clear winners are all of us interested in A.A. history and archives.? Mike B.?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:08 PM Thom R. < thombone@...> wrote: [Edited Message Follows]
[Reason: Explaining the flood of donations we have received which is now covered are expenses in being able to upgrade to premium already! Wow! ??]
This sticky will keep track of who donated what because we should have no secrets here, of course. Therefore, every donation will be posted here. In that way, if you donate you'll be able to see that it has been acknowledged. Thus we can all keep track of the money together. Right now, our current? goal is $220 so that we can buy the premium features for one year and really start to build this site.
Once we reach the target amount I will immediately turn on premium features by subscribing to them for all of us.
To donate, simply PayPal to:
thombone@...
... and please remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT "pay for goods or services" because if you do choose "pay for goods or services" then PayPal will charge a fee. If you choose "send to a friend" then there will be no fee and we will receive the full amount. Thank you.
Donations so far, so be updated as they come in:
AMOUNT NEEDED: $220
DONATIONS:?
Thom R. $20 - 1-28-20
Anonymous - $20 - 1-28-20
Patrick E. - $10.57 - 1-28-20
Smith H -?$20 - 1-28-20
Brain E -?$20 - 1-28-20
Mary L - $20 - 1-28-20
Mary C - $20 - 1-28-20
Wayne R - $10- 1-28-20
Theron B - $10 - 1-28-20
Michael M - $20 - 1-28-20
Paul H - $40 - 1-28-20
Greg M - $20 - 1-28-20
Mike B -?$20 - 1-28-20
David N -?$20 - 1-28-20
Total: $270.57
AMOUNT NEEDED STILL: -50.57? A CREDIT BALANCE! WE HAVE Enough for 2020. :)?
We will apply the credit balance towards next year.
Thank you we will do the upgrade now and we will get to work together on building up our library Etc.
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Way to go! Thanks Thom for spearheading?this.?
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And in the interest of full disclosure here is the receipt save for the credit card information ;-) I think I'll keep that Anonymous hahaha.
WE ARE NOW PREMIUM until 1-21-21. I will set up a stripe account before next year so that we can do the donations for the upgrade next year from right Within this website. But because this was the first time I didn't want to go through all of that because I wasn't sure what the group conscience was going to be, to be honest. But now that we all know, I'll set everything else up properly for next time. We won't have to use PayPal anymore then.?
Receipt :
Groups.io, Inc.
3130 Alpine Rd #288-263
Portola Valley, CA 94028
[email protected]
P:?(650) 209-0312
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We've received your payment for your Groups.io group. You can keep this receipt for your records. For questions, contact us anytime at [email protected].
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And in the interest of full disclosure here is the receipt save for the credit card information ;-) I think I'll keep that Anonymous hahaha. WE ARE NOW PREMIUM until 1-21-21. I will set up a stripe account before next year so that we can do the donations for the upgrade next year from right Within this website. But because this was the first time I didn't want to go through all of that because I wasn't sure what the group conscience was going to be, to be honest. But now that we all know, I'll set everything else up properly for next time. We won't have to use PayPal anymore then.? Receipt : Groups.io, Inc.3130 Alpine Rd #288-263 Portola Valley, CA 94028 [email protected]P:?(650) 209-0312
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We've received your payment for your Groups.io group. You can keep this receipt for your records. For questions, contact us anytime at [email protected].
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Thom This is your work-correct? (That .ios tag was a brainless iPhone autocorrect) This is to be where the AAHL original Yahoo group archives were headed to be downloaded to and preserved as I understand it.
Also, I¡¯m interested preserving the AAHL2 material. I¡¯m currently a listed moderator of that Yahoo group. Best Regards, Barry Murtaugh 773.851.2100
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On Jan 28, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Thom R. < thombone@...> wrote: The mission statement is already posted? but I will further elaborate no problem. This is meant to potentially become the AAHL2 successor simply because Yahoo groups keeps cutting their group system and it's rumored that they're going to be getting rid of it soon entirely so they're not going to have a platform for much longer and this has a lot more features.
If you look at our files section we already have some of the archive in a searchable format posted and I'm working on getting more up. Going premium is about getting more space so we can have a larger archive. Among other things. I don't know anything about . Please, could you tell me what you meant by that?
Thank you.?
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The mission statement is already posted? but I will further elaborate no problem. This is meant to potentially become the AAHL2 successor simply because Yahoo groups keeps cutting their group system and it's rumored that they're going to be getting rid of it soon entirely so they're not going to have a platform for much longer and this has a lot more features.
If you look at our files section we already have some of the archive in a searchable format posted and I'm working on getting more up. Going premium is about getting more space so we can have a larger archive. Among other things. I don't know anything about ios.com. Please, could you tell me what you meant by that?
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$20 Donation on the way..
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On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 06:19:58 AM EST, Thom R. <thombone@...> wrote:
This sticky will keep track of who donated what because we should have no secrets here, of course. Therefore, every donation will be posted here. In that way, if you donate you'll be able to see that it has been acknowledged. Thus we can all keep track of the money together. Right now, our current? goal is $220 so that we can buy the premium features for one year and really start to build this site. Once we reach the target amount I will immediately turn on premium features by subscribing to them for all of us. To donate, simply PayPal to: thombone@... ... and please remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT "pay for goods or services" because if you do choose "pay for goods or services" then PayPal will charge a fee. If you choose "send to a friend" then there will be no fee and we will receive the full amount. Thank you. Donations so far, so be updated as they come in: AMOUNT NEEDED: $220 DONATIONS:? Thom R. $20 - 1-28-20 Anonymous $20 - 1-28-20 AMOUNT NEEDED STILL: $180
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Sent $20 to you. Thank you for spearheading this!
Sounds good. $20?on it's way. Let me know if we need more.
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Okay it seems to me that the group conscience has determined that we probably should do this but as always it usually comes down to the wallet so my PayPal is thombone@.... I will start a sticky thread of donations as they come in along with the amounts please leave a note in your PayPal if you want to be anonymous. I will chip in $20 myself for the first year and when we collect $200 more (total of $220 for the entire year which is cheaper and a lot less stressful than buying it monthly by far) I will then subscribe us to and turn on premium and we will start building an awesome file library and other things that only premium will let us do.
Sound good?
NOTE: PLEASE remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT pay for goods and services otherwise I will get charged a fee and won't get the full amount.
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I must have missed the origin message. Is this about supporting the AAHL archive now on ? What about AAHL2 successor? Pleased to join in support. Need to know the mission scope. Best RegardsBarry Murtaugh 773.851.2100 mobile
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On Jan 28, 2020, at 8:26 AM, David Nieland < nielanddavid@...> wrote: Sounds good. $20?on it's way. Let me know if we need more. [Edited Message Follows]
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Okay it seems to me that the group conscience has determined that we probably should do this but as always it usually comes down to the wallet so my PayPal is thombone@.... I will start a sticky thread of donations as they come in along with the amounts please leave a note in your PayPal if you want to be anonymous. I will chip in $20 myself for the first year and when we collect $200 more (total of $220 for the entire year which is cheaper and a lot less stressful than buying it monthly by far) I will then subscribe us to and turn on premium and we will start building an awesome file library and other things that only premium will let us do.
Sound good?
NOTE: PLEASE remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT pay for goods and services otherwise I will get charged a fee and won't get the full amount.
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You might remind them to designate this as a gift.? I forgot to.
Tommy H
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[Reason: added the note about sending to a friend in PayPal]
Okay it seems to me that the group conscience has determined that
we probably should do this but as always it usually comes down to
the wallet so my PayPal is thombone@.... I will start a
sticky thread of donations as they come in along with the amounts
please leave a note in your PayPal if you want to be anonymous. I
will chip in $20 myself for the first year and when we collect
$200 more (total of $220 for the entire year which is cheaper and
a lot less stressful than buying it monthly by far) I will then
subscribe us to and turn on premium and we will start building an
awesome file library and other things that only premium will let
us do.
Sound good?
NOTE: PLEASE remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation"
and NOT pay for goods and services otherwise I will get charged a
fee and won't get the full amount.
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Sounds good. $20?on it's way. Let me know if we need more.
[Edited Message Follows]
[Reason: added the note about sending to a friend in PayPal]
Okay it seems to me that the group conscience has determined that we probably should do this but as always it usually comes down to the wallet so my PayPal is thombone@.... I will start a sticky thread of donations as they come in along with the amounts please leave a note in your PayPal if you want to be anonymous. I will chip in $20 myself for the first year and when we collect $200 more (total of $220 for the entire year which is cheaper and a lot less stressful than buying it monthly by far) I will then subscribe us to and turn on premium and we will start building an awesome file library and other things that only premium will let us do.
Sound good?
NOTE: PLEASE remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT pay for goods and services otherwise I will get charged a fee and won't get the full amount.
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This sticky will keep track of who donated what because we should have no secrets here, of course. Therefore, every donation will be posted here. In that way, if you donate you'll be able to see that it has been acknowledged. Thus we can all keep track of the money together. Right now, our current? goal is $220 so that we can buy the premium features for one year and really start to build this site. Once we reach the target amount I will immediately turn on premium features by subscribing to them for all of us. To donate, simply PayPal to: thombone@... ... and please remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT "pay for goods or services" because if you do choose "pay for goods or services" then PayPal will charge a fee. If you choose "send to a friend" then there will be no fee and we will receive the full amount. Thank you. Donations so far, so be updated as they come in: AMOUNT NEEDED: $220 DONATIONS:? Thom R. $20 - 1-28-20 Anonymous - $20 - 1-28-20 Patrick E. - $10.57 - 1-28-20 Smith H -?$20 - 1-28-20 Brain E -?$20 - 1-28-20 Mary L - $20 - 1-28-20 Mary C - $20 - 1-28-20 Wayne R - $10- 1-28-20 Theron B - $10 - 1-28-20 Michael M - $20 - 1-28-20 Paul H - $40 - 1-28-20 Greg M - $20 - 1-28-20 Mike B -?$20 - 1-28-20 David N -?$20 - 1-28-20 Robert K - $20 - 1-29-20 Richard T - $20 - 1-29-20 Paul M - $20 - 2-1-20 Mark E. - $25 - 4-9-20 Total: $355.57 AMOUNT NEEDED STILL: -110.57? A CREDIT BALANCE! WE HAVE Enough for 2020. :)? We will apply the credit balance towards next year! THANK YOU!? Thank you we will do the upgrade now and we will get to work together on building up our library Etc. UPDATE 2-6-20: Also, I will set up the necessary account so that we can do the donations from directly. Within this website in the future. That way we won't even have to use PayPal anymore. And it won't attract the donations automatically. I'll be getting to work on that soon. I have some temporary medical things going on. But I'm doing a lot of work in the background in order to get the site fully operational, still. Patience, please.
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UPDATE: We now have enough money to go premium for the year so you don't need to donate any longer for now but any donations that might still float in we'll just keep a credit balance and apply it towards next year. We plan to be here for a while. Thank you to all who have donated! We're going to work hard together to make this great. This is an amazing platform and we are definitely going to use it to Advantage.
ORIGINAL POST: Okay it seems to me that the group conscience has determined that we probably should do this but as always it usually comes down to the wallet so my PayPal is thombone@.... I will start a sticky thread of donations as they come in along with the amounts please leave a note in your PayPal if you want to be anonymous. I will chip in $20 myself for the first year and when we collect $200 more (total of $220 for the entire year which is cheaper and a lot less stressful than buying it monthly by far) I will then subscribe us to and turn on premium and we will start building an awesome file library and other things that only premium will let us do.
Sound good?
NOTE: PLEASE remember to choose "send to a friend" or "donation" and NOT pay for goods and services otherwise I will get charged a fee and won't get the full amount.
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3¨Cnot yet. I have very limited income and it would be very difficult to do. Thanks Vicki -- Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
Chinese Proverb.
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Yes please? Cheers Brian? 801-403-8789
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On Jan 21, 2020, at 01:04, Thom R. <thombone@...> wrote:
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A new poll has been created:
We would need to go "Premium" in order for us to be able to build the kind of Library I think that we all would like to see. Those features include more space and bandwidth and such. We have to pass the hat to be able to afford it, since it's $220 a year. I think that it is worth it though from what I can tell. But it's not up to me alone. Hence, this poll. We'll let the group conscience decide. If you want to go Premium, yes and if the yeses win then we can start a donation thread where we can keep track of those donations and keep everything on the level. There will be no secrets here.?
As of now, with the free version, we have one gigabyte of space which would fill up very quickly if we started posting audio files especially. I alone have a huge library and I certainly would love to share some of my archives and I know some of you would, too.
So let's decide. Do we want to take full advantage of groups.io? Do we want to build this into an archives powerhouse of a forum?
I have it set to not show who responds to the poll so don't worry, your votes will remain anonymous. The poll will close when at least two-thirds of the current members have voted or when the answer becomes mathematically obvious.
Thank you for letting me be of service.
Thom
1. Yes
2. No
3. Not yet
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I'll chip in $20 now & next year...
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On Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 05:25:21 AM EST, Jim <jimincancun@...> wrote:
yes. Go premium. I will chip in
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:04 AM Thom R. < thombone@...> wrote:
A new poll has been created:
We would need to go "Premium" in order for us to be able to build the kind of Library I think that we all would like to see. Those features include more space and bandwidth and such. We have to pass the hat to be able to afford it, since it's $220 a year. I think that it is worth it though from what I can tell. But it's not up to me alone. Hence, this poll. We'll let the group conscience decide. If you want to go Premium, yes and if the yeses win then we can start a donation thread where we can keep track of those donations and keep everything on the level. There will be no secrets here.?
As of now, with the free version, we have one gigabyte of space which would fill up very quickly if we started posting audio files especially. I alone have a huge library and I certainly would love to share some of my archives and I know some of you would, too.
So let's decide. Do we want to take full advantage of ? Do we want to build this into an archives powerhouse of a forum?
I have it set to not show who responds to the poll so don't worry, your votes will remain anonymous. The poll will close when at least two-thirds of the current members have voted or when the answer becomes mathematically obvious.
Thank you for letting me be of service.
Thom
1. Yes
2. No
3. Not yet
Vote Now
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