Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why DA Costs Should Be Spread Among All Subscribers Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 89 23:26:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 366, message 4 of 8 In article , bzs@cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein) writes: > Does Sears charge for their catalogues? There's a lot of precedent to > helping people find your products for free, that's all DA is. Yes, indeed they do charge. And it's not a petty amount, either! Sorry, I couln't resist. Apparently you haven't tried to get a Sears catalogue lately. And it points out that at some point even they must have felt that just giving the catalogues away wasn't cost effective; those customers that were really serious would be willing to pop for the catalogue. -- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !