comments interspersed.
At Tuesday 3/2/99 23:09, murr rhame wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Am I to understand that even though you don't intend to "make a
>> profit' on this, that you have some objection to someone else
>> making a profit? Why? I understand that this question is off
>> topic for the list, but there seems to be a lot of animosity
>> towards the thought of anyone ELSE making money.
>
>IMHO, this is definitely on topic for a list managers mailing list.
>
>I would certainly object to someone else making profit from a list
>which I host, free of charge, as a community service.
[vawjr] It's clear from your "certainly" that you feel strongly about
this (as apparently do many). It is why I asked my original question: "Why?"
>Anyone who
>wants to keep their mailing list private and free from commercial
>influences has my support.
[vawjr] I support being free from unwanted influences also. I note that
you specifically denote "commercial". Is there some reason that their
influences are worse than any others?
>Why should an outsider benefit financially
>from the efforts of a a list admin and his/her subscribers?
[vawjr] Most likely they will be offering services in addition to those
that the list admin and subscribers provide. And, apparently, they can
find people willing to pay for those services.
> Sorry.
>You get no sympathy from me on this whatsoever.
[vawjr] I wasn't looking for sympathy, I was asking a question.
>Wanna make a buck on
>mailing lists?
[vawjr] I don't see the relevance to my question, but no, I hadn't
considered making a buck on mailing lists.
>Open your own lists. Leave my list and my subscribers
>the alone.
[vawjr] I have not in the past, have not now, and have no plans to interact
with your subscribers in any way (at least not because they are your
subscribers, a matter of indifference to me when I choose to interact with
someone).
>We can get along just fine without any money changing
>hands.
>
>
>- murr -
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