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There is evidence ideas like this are not unreasonable. If you look at for example public radio in the US, which is mostly supported by donations from listeners, you have I believe, millions of people donating, I'm not sure how many exactly but there are many public radio stations which are supported by their listeners and they seem to be finding it easier to get donations as time goes on. Ten years ago they would have maybe six weeks of the year when they were spending most of their time asking people &ldquo;Please send some money, don't you think we're important enough&rdquo; and so on 24 hours a day, and now a lot of them have found that they can raise the contributions by sending people mail who sent them donations in the past, and they don't have to spend their airtime drumming up the donations.