X-Message-Number: 16273 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 04:20:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Best <> Subject: INC on PayPal Well, with Alan Mole and James Swayze trying to drag me kicking, screaming & whining into the 21st Century, Kennita Watson has added the clincher by sending $100 to my e-mail address. Naturally, this money will belong to INC, once I can get it. I have now attempted to go through the sign-up process with PayPal -- both for myself and for The Institute For Neural Cryobiology (INC). I have had to cut a few corners. I will not be able to receive money sent to until I have received my VISA statement in June. (I think this VISA requirement is only because I am Canadian -- not living in the USA.) Possibly this money can be used on electron micrographs, but INC really needs money earlier than June to pay for June. It is possible that the project could be extended another month into July, however, if the research warrants the extension and if Yuri Pichugan and CI agree. But I do not recommend sending donations to through PayPal. I have also attempted to register INC as a business account with PayPal. Since the INC bank account and corporate address are both in the United States that part was straight- forward, but it also assumed that the contact person was in the United States. I fudged by giving the INC corporate address along with my Canadian phone numbers. But a bigger fudge was the e-mail address for INC. Rather than bother Paul Wakfer and trying to mess with getting access to the INC e-mail address, I used So if you want to donate money to INC, you will use that e-mail address and not the official INC e-mail address, whatever that is. It looks like I will get confirmation of the INC registration within a couple of days -- after checking with the INC bank account -- and I should be able to do this without having signing authority with the bank. I will post again to CryoNet once I have gotten confirmation. This seems like a lot of hassle to go through for a project coming to an end so soon, but if there is any hope that people are going to contribute more money if PayPal is an option -- and if there is a reasonable chance of extending the HSCP research into July, it is worth the effort. More later. -- Ben Best, President The Institute For Neural Cryobiology (INC) Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16273