I think this is a great idea. It'd be interesting to see how much moola could be raised. I think that if the money actually existed, the fixes would get done, somehow.

In practice, I think there are perhaps 200 people on this BBS who might contribute some amount of money up to US$100 or so for this, maybe averaging around US$75. That would give around US$15000 to work with, I think.

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