Sponsor Group IUOMA

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The IUOMA is free for all members because of the many sponsors that donate to the IUOMA or because of the IUOMA bookshop that brings in money to keep this platform alive & free.

you can visit the bookshop at:

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/iuoma

and when you order a few books, a small fee will be going to the IUOMA and you will get some lovely books on Mail-Art.

Members: 45
Latest Activity: Mar 28

On this page I will keep IUOMA members up to date on how the financial situation is for IUOMA on NING. According to the new guidelines by NING the hosting costed 588 USD (=508 Euro at current rates) when paid on a yearly basis.

For 2024-2025 : 508 EURO is brought up by members/sponsors (paid for)

For 2025-2026 : 121 euro needed (387 euros brought up by members/sponsors)

For 2026-2027 : 508 euro needed.

Thanks for all the donations! You people keep this platform alive for all!

update : March 28th 2025

The exchange-rate of USD-EUR might change the numbers a bit. And if NING changes it rates again, the table changes too!

For Paypal donations: IMPORTANT: please use the friends/family option. That means the transaction costs are minimal and Paypal doesn't get a large part of your donation.

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Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 1, 2022 at 8:12am: some very generous donations arrived last months, so IUOMA stays alive and well!

Comment by Bradford on August 16, 2021 at 10:01pm: Today is a great day to support the IUOMA with a donation!

The International Union of Mail Artists was created 33 years ago today.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 23, 2021 at 4:24pm: The bill for another year on NING has just been paid. Thanks for all the sponsors that helped IUOMA to keep it a free and advertising free place.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 2, 2021 at 6:08pm: The complete network is archived by the Internet Archive. So that is accesible for everyone.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on July 2, 2021 at 8:05am: Is it possible to transfer the "heavy" Gbyte old groups and the old video postings to IUOMA at Facebook before deleting them here at ning? That way we will keep the historic postings for future generations to see.

Or...perhaps, Ruud, you could save all the "old" stuff to a Tbyte hard disc and keep it in your TAM archive, to post to ning if ever there is a need. Hoping there is a way to reduce the "bytes" at ning so as not to pay a high price, but still have an archive somewhere to save IUOMA history.

Comment by Bradford on July 2, 2021 at 6:36am: Yes, I did that, but they only show pricing up to 100GB. I started a chat and was told that the next level was 1TB for $500 US / month. If they had a 500GB level we'd be set for quite awhile and it'd have to be cheaper than the 1TB quote.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 2, 2021 at 6:25am: you can check the pricing at:

https://www.ning.com/pricing/

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 2, 2021 at 6:13am: Deleting inactive groups (no activity for years) is an option, but it is also deleting our history.

I do know that this website is indexed by www.archive.org, so the complete data is there too some way.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 2, 2021 at 6:11am: with 100 Gbyte they will ask 82 US$ a month.

The current archive is 321 Gbyte. SO quite expensive still.

Comment by Bradford on July 1, 2021 at 11:44pm: I just got a quote for 1TB of storage for $500 US / month. That's more than 12 times as much as we're paying now. Don't know if there's enough in donations to support that level although I'd be willing to contribute monthly.

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Want to support the IUOMA with a financial gift via PayPal?

The money will be used to keep the IUOMA-platform alive. Current donations keep platform online till 1-february-2026. If you want to donate to get IUOMA-publications into archives and museums please mention this with your donation. It will then be used to send some hardcopy books into museums and archives. You can order books yourself too at the IUOMA-Bookshop. That will sponsor the IUOMA as well.

IMPORTANT: please use the friends/family option with donation on Paypal. That makes transaction fee the lowest.

This IUOMA platform on NING has no advertisings, so the funding is completely depending on donationsby members. Access remains free for everybody off course

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