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I can't speak directly for Kovid, but I can for those who have been kind enough to donate for my plugins. A few people made some fairly significant donations and when I tried emailing them I frequently hit some email walls rejecting me as an unknown sender etc (i.e. they had ring-fenced their emails to known senders for spam purposes). So after that I just chose not to try - the time spent emailing can more usefully imho (to the donators and everyone else) be spent actually supporting and maintaining the plugins.
Anyone should hopefully just "know" that every single donation is very gratefully received and brightens my day/week considerably to know that some cared enough to make the effort to donate!
Kovid will have a many orders of magnitude more of a problem - with 6 million users and x% making donations, how much time do you want him to be spending sending "thanks" emails versus continuing to develop the product? I know where I would rather he be spending his time in the long run. It sounds impersonal but from a practical viewpoint unless he builds some software to scrape paypal emails for addresses and respond with automated emails it isn't the best use of a limited amount of time don't you think?
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