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>>If you ask a question, you should pay. If I provide you with useful help, you should pay. If I suggest a commercial solution to your problem, who should pay? If I harass you for not knowing the answer to the question, I should pay.<< Hmm, reminds me of the Compu$erve Forums, which, ironically, met their demise (imho) when the WWW (and Usenet) started to blossom. ex 70720,151 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Schwartz" <[email protected]> To: "Stephen Stuart" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:32 PM Subject: Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth > > > >I would argue that what USENET needs is a way for the cost of > >publication to be incurred by the publisher; storing the data in your > >own repository (or repositories) while pointers get flooded through > >the USENET distribution system would give publishers an incentive to > >do garbage collection that they do not have today. > > Like many Internet settlement schemes, this seems to not make much sense. If > a person reads USENET for many years enjoying all of its wisdom, why should > he get a free ride? And why should the people who supply that wisdom have to > pay to do so? A USENET transaction is presumed to benefit both parties, or > else they wouldn't have configured their computers to make that transaction. > > Does it make sense for the New York Times to pay me to read it? But perhaps > it does for the Weekly Advertiser. > > The reason that automated schemes such as "publisher pays" will fail is > because determining who "should" pay is too complex for automated schemes. > You will just push around who takes advantage of who. > > If you ask a question, you should pay. If I provide you with useful help, > you should pay. If I suggest a commercial solution to your problem, who > should pay? If I harass you for not knowing the answer to the question, I > should pay. > > DS > >
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