I think I found the thread you were refering to. I provided a link to the tech site. When I went there here is the nice note they have left.
"This page has been deleted. The deletion log for the page is provided below for reference.
21:07, 7 December 2009 Lindsayre (Talk | contribs) deleted "Electronic donations" (Delete ''''Electronic Donations''' per J Johnson, LDS Donations@CHQ. The dept doesn't want to encourage this because they are not setup to efficiently collect e-donations. Requests create lots of work @CHQ. e-Donation only allowed in extreme cases.)"