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Subject:Re: ADMIN: More on upcoming list changes--READ ME From:William Swallow <WSWALLOW -at- COMMSOFT -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 4 Aug 1999 09:47:55 -0400
No offense to anyone here, but I'll probably not be here if this list starts
charging. There are plenty of tech writing and other related professional
lists out there that allow free membership. If this list starts charging,
then they'd better put out a lot more than e-mail.
My $0.02 for the thread.
Bill Swallow
Technical Writer
Aptis
a subsidiary of Billing Concepts
phone: 518.433.7698
fax: 518.433.7680 mailto:wswallow -at- commsoft -dot- net http://www.aptissoftware.com
> -----Original Message-----
> Is there a way to make this a paid subscription service? If half the
> current listmembers were willing to pay $5.00 per year, that would
> generate $10,000, which ought to be enough to cover the overhead of
> handling the transactions online as well as the overhead charges you
> describe. (I'm assuming half the list members would be too annoyed or
> lazy to cough up the five bucks; I may be overly pessimistic in this. If
> more signed up, there would be money to support other features, maybe
> return a little to you guys for your management efforts, something I for
> one would not resent in the least.)
