[Foundation-l] Donation banner and strongly negative reactions

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:
>> Most of the really tiny donations (especially in USD) are criminals
>> attempting to verify stolen credit cards. There is no point in begging
>> them to donate more. :)
> [citation needed]

The list is not Wikipedia: If you don't care to believe me it's your
own loss. This was what paypal told Wikimedia during a prior fund
raising drive.  Perhaps it's no longer true, but I think it's a lot
more plausible than the notion of people genuinely intending to donate
0.01 USD.