Cyberspace Communications finances for May 2005

Jun 14 13:35 UTC 2005

Here is the treasurer's report on Cyberspace Communications, Inc. finances 
through May 31st, 2005

Beginning Balance     $2,986.64

Credits                 $312.00         Member contributions
                        $251.00         Refund for Pumpkin insurance
                         $40.00         Miscellaneous contributions
                          $1.08         Interest on our savings account
                   ------------
                        $604.08

Debits                  $100.00         Provide Net colocation (thru 6/22/05)
                         $45.70         Phone Bill
                        $290.00         New disk drive
                          $5.95         Paypal fees (income = $162)
                   ------------
                        $441.65

Ending Balance        $3,149.07

Our current balance breaks down as follows:

$2,975.08               General Fund
  $173.99               Silly Hat Fund

The money is distributed like this:

$1,254.43   Checking account
$1,894.64   Savings account earning 0.55% interest annually

We had one new member in May (ric).  We are currently at 66 members, 59 
of whom are paid through at least June 15th.  (The others expired recently 
and are in a grace period.)

Notes:

- We moved out of the Pumpkin March 1st, and so we were entitled to a partial 
refund of the $552 we paid for liability insurance last August.  Mary had to 
hound the insurance company to get them to pay it, but they finally did. 
Thanks Mary!

- I have been travelling since the beginning of June, which is why this 
report has been delayed.  My apologies.

Thanks to everyone who contributed in May:

arthurp, atticus, charcat, dpc, janc, mooncat, muthu, and ric.

If you or your institution would like to become a member of Grex, it 
only costs $6/month or $60/year.  Send money to:

Cyberspace Communications
P. O. Box 4432
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4432

If you pay by cash or money order, please include a photocopy of some 
form of ID.  We can't add you to the rolls without ID.  (If you pay 
with a personal check that has your name pre-printed on it, we 
consider that a good enough ID.)  Type !support or see 
http://www.cyberspace.org/member.html for more info.

response 2 of 35:

Jun 14 13:50 UTC 2005

Grex certainly appreciates it, Rick.

response 4 of 35:

Jun 14 15:16 UTC 2005

Welcome to Grex membership, ric... even though you've been using the system
longer than I have. :)

response 6 of 35:

Jun 15 01:31 UTC 2005

can i buy your hat ?

response 8 of 35:

Jun 21 17:56 UTC 2005

This is ridiculous.  If I get someone else to write me a cheque for a GreX
membership, and the cheque has their name and address pre-printed on it, 
then that's "good enough" ID, even though I don't actually have anything to
do with the person who wrote the cheque ?!

response 10 of 35:

Jun 21 18:37 UTC 2005

does grex accept canadian tax rebate cheques?

response 12 of 35:

Jun 21 20:43 UTC 2005

And how does the treasurer prove it's from the parents ?

response 14 of 35:

Jun 21 22:27 UTC 2005

You personally phone that person up and say "ARE YOU THE LEGAL GUARDIAN OF
SUCHANDSUCH< ?".

Or maybe you hire a private eye to figure out who they are.

All this stinks of identity theft.

I think GreX is a front for stealing people's SIN numbers.

response 16 of 35:

Jun 22 00:34 UTC 2005

It's God's version of an SSN.  We have them here in Canada.

response 18 of 35:

Jun 26 05:16 UTC 2005

Thanks Jared!

response 20 of 35:

Jun 26 14:31 UTC 2005

The past two years Mark has been kind enough to keep nagging me,
so i've removed the need for him to nag for at least another
year or more.  I'm quite happy to see grex with a positive cash
flow, It should help out a lot with the necessary upgrades
(disk capacity mostly I suspect) Grex will need in the
upcoming months/years.

response 22 of 35:

Jun 26 17:30 UTC 2005

thanks, Mary, a lot

response 24 of 35:

Jun 27 14:39 UTC 2005

The current membership rate is more than adequate for ongoing expenses and
people seem willing to make additional donations if we need hardware.