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I have edited my post (the original was an ad by a donor in a different website) because now that I think about it, Donor Jen (below) has a valid point.

I'm very sorry if I have offended anyone, I was just trying to help because I KNOW how hard it is to look for African American donors.

I just wanted to say that I found a post of someone who is African American
in http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/000992.html

My sincere apolgies.

Hi,
Great idea for this section! However....
As a donor, I'm not very comfortable with the idea of ads being placed elsewhere--whether for IPs or for donors--now cut and paste onto here. If a donor posted it for somewhere else, I do think it should stay where it was, unless the original poster is consulted first. It just seems a violation of privacy and the donor's intentions. I'd be really upset if I found out someone had cut and pasted one of my ads onto this site, since I'd only put my private info somewhere (and email address and website are not accessible via surromomsonline, unless you want it to be) I had chosen to put it.
Just my two cents!

Hey \"Master\", no apoligies. I tend to have a different opinion vs donor poster who responded to you. If someone wants to keep something private, you DO NOT post it on a public forum... Believe me, I deal with this day in, day out in my \"day job\" in the tech world... If you post something on a website/whatever that is accessible to all, then that is what you have to expect - that it's accessible to all...

If you want to mask or otherwise keep things private, you do it by putting it behind a firewall, password protection, aliases or other means... The world wide web does NOT work on the honor system, so you DO have to protect yourself and your privacy.

Donor, I totally understand your pt, but the onus for protecting privacy/etc is on YOU and not the receiver. Don't mean to be pedantic here, but this one hits a nerve - given the work I do...

OK bring on those African American donors!

Thanks, Oh Master for taking my concerns into account and ammending that. Let me clarify too a bit of what I meant. I too agree that once it's out there, it's out there, warts and all, on the internet. However, if I post an ad on SMO, I post it on SMO, with the intention that it stays there for x period of time (a month, I believe). The info posted there is relevant at that moment in time: contact info, number of donations thus far, etc. If its put elsewhere, the context is gone, and I don't think that's fair. In my line of work, I teach students how to interrogate written sources and analyze context--i.e, don't cite citations within citations. Instead, go the original. That's part of my objection. A reference to that general site is fine, I think. For this reason, I also think that agency reviews posted here directly, as opposed to cut and pasted from elsewhere, carry more authority and \"punch.\" I understand why the ones from Net54 are here, but I do think directly posted ones carry more weight because of the author's intentions in posting them here.

Second, each of these ad sites also has their own terms of use, as well, and I cannot imagine that these terms gives those sites the license to cut and paste at will. Why, then, should others be able to do so? That's what I meant. I'm not trying to be snarky at all, please believe me!





All the best,
Jen

I am sorry you post over at SMO.

Nothing but bad experiences there.

HI this is Alisia and I am a very fertile 27 year old egg donor who has donated successfully three times.In june 07 I completed a retrieval where they got 26 eggs. I have since done 2 more cycles for 2 more couples,both of whom concieved. One couple has a little boy and the other is expecting twins!!!I live in Illinois but I am flexible and willing to travel I am available and ready to start if there are couples interested in working together!!

hi, are you still available? we are a couple in southern california and are ready to start a cycle in sept. please pm me at tinashura@gmail.com if you still available.
thanks