From: Alan Mason <vznquest@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 15:30:48 PDT
To: Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Subject: Re: your mail
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DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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On Wed, 6 Oct 1993, Anonymous wrote:

> > and cause people not to buy their next posting. 2) People would 
> > have an incentive to contribute to the group because they would
> > start running out of cash if they didn't say something valuable. 
> 
> Yes, but it would also discourage lurkers like me who are here to learn
> - and don't have much to contribute so far.  If you have to pay to read,
> and to get more money you have to post something useful that people want
> to read, the "startup cost" associated with the list would grow as time
> goes on.