On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 at 04.30.48 -0600, Sean Waite wrote: > A friend passed along this contract offer, and to say the least I was > a bit taken back by what was being offered. Below is what was listed > for the contract proposal. Now here is what is rather amusing, the > project is budgeted for $500-1000. Is it just me or is this ridiculously > low? Problem is I am seeing this all over. Has IT work just become so > meaningless these days or what? while it's possible some of this functionality could be got from free software, the e-mail is clearly worded to indicate that the author expects someone will write all this software from scratch for $500-1000. that's fucked up, and it can only end as a disaster. this is just trash, and i would treat it as such. i don't even respond to garbage e-mails like this any more. -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/