> I would not pay a subscription to a list I think you might change your mind if all lists gave the choice of buying a subscription or accept ads and those were the only ones around. That's like saying to Mike...hey, I'm perfectly willing to participate and benefit from your work, but not if you're going to benefit...
I get a lot of free magazines, too, but they are supported by advertising, like Mike is trying to do. If the advertisers in those magazines start dropping their advertising, we woulnd't be getting any free magazines... I get paid for my eyes on the magazine with the advertisements. All I'm saying is that Mike should be free to do advertising in a manner that makes money for him and no one on the list should demand a free ride... The best solution, I think at this point, is to have an advertising option...pay a subscription for advertising free list mail or accept whatever advertising he chooses to employ. Sounds fair to me... Rick ---------------------------------------- From: Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:50 PM To: CF-Talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Subject: Re: wtf are those advertizing links in the text? On 4/20/05, Rick Faircloth wrote: > The only ones to drop from the list would be those who thought > they knew so much that they would rarely or never have a question > that they needed an answer to, or those who already know everything > and don't care to help others... I disagree. I participate in a large number of mailing lists, learning from others as well as helping others. Those lists are all free. Some of them are also free of advertising. I give a lot of my time to participate in the community so it already 'costs' me - and, yes, I get value from it. I would not pay a subscription to a list - there's plenty of other free lists. I don't subscribe to Community MX (a paid service), I don't subscribe to any magazines (i.e., I don't pay - if a magazine wants to send me a free subscription I might accept... that's how I get InfoWorld and Software Development Magazine). -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://fusebox.org/ Got Gmail? -- I have 50, yes 50, invites to give away! "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:203740 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
