On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > So I just heard about Google AdSense, which appears > to be a fairly easy way to put text based ads on a website. > I wonder if that makes sense to add to Mail-Archive. > I doubt it would generate a significant amount of money, > but it might help to defray costs without pissing off > too many users. > > https://www.google.com/adsense/ > > What do people think? Yes? No? Why? Is this a good way to deal with > Mail-Archive growth or am I asking for trouble? I've always feared > that getting money involved will change expections (particularly > tolerance of problems when something goes wrong) and cause me hassle, > but there may be a host of issues I haven't even imagined. >
You weren't reading a certain Slashfot article, were you? I think it's a good way for a site like yours, with a lot of page views, to make money. Would you put them on the individual messages too? I wouldn't object to that on my list, but I could envisage some people might object. Of course, you might choose to ignore those people... -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
