Whoa!  I'd have to take out a loan every month  to cover my costs!  :o)

Rick

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 From: Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 5:52 PM
To: CF-Talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com>
Subject: Re: wtf are those advertizing links in the text? 

LOL....I just had a thought....maybe Mike should make ppl pay to have 
their posts removed, too! You know, sometimes when we all say those 
dumb things that we wish we hadn't? Mike can charge $20, $50, $100, 
whatever to remove any post so that it won't be indexed forever by Google.

Ray

Rick Faircloth wrote:
> No, Mike...I really do have to agree with Tony...(maybe not
> quite the way he phrased it ;o), but people who demand something
> for nothing are nothing but cheap.
> 
> Now, I understand Jochem's concern about his text being linked...
> I have some concerns about that, too. But anybody who says
> that they won't pay a penny for participating in something from
> which they derive value are nothing but freeloaders.
> 
> I guess these same people insist that Ben Forta give them his
> books for free rather than pay for his time in writing them like
> you have to use your time to maintain this list *and* even add
> the extras, such as archives, etc. Time is valuable, no matter
> whose time it is and you should be compensated through ads
> or subscriptions...
> 
> It's really sad...
> 
> Rick
> 
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Dinowitz)
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:08 PM
> To: CF-Talk 
> Subject: Re: wtf are those advertizing links in the text? 
> 
> Not really. There are lots of alternate resource out there. None as large or 
> active as HoF, but they could be. I'd rather grow HoF in features than force 
> people away with charging or things (like the inline ads) that turn them 
> off.
> Rather than charge people or offer an ad free version of the site I'm just 
> going to focus more on new features (such as the verity search for ALL 
> threads) and hope to find an advertising rep to help out in that regard.
> That and find a second to bill the advertisers I currently have. :)
> 
> 
>>cheap bastards!
>>
>>
>>>We've looked into this - you can't assume a 1:1 ratio if you went paid.
>>>Mike might easily lose 95% or more of his subscribers if he went 
>>>pay-only.
>>>It's just a sad fact of the world.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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