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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Keyword based news and poster pays
Message-ID: <436@looking.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 02:26:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 12 02:26:27 1985
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

Let me make this clear.  A poster pays system forms a larger general
framework in which the current system can exist as a degenerate case. (and
I mean degenerate!)

This is done by allowing and encouraging collect articles.  You get the
current net if people say "I'll accept anything collect."  But now it's
on a group by group, individual by individual basis.  Whatever net is
naturally desired by the users eventually percolates to the top.

For example, people might be glad to take many technical discussion
groups collect.  They might want net.politics to be poster paid, however.
They might want to take most people collect and only have some users
be refused collect.

So, if you want the net the way it is, just accept collect.  You would get
one big monthly bill.  If the only reason you could not justify this to
management is because it would become a special bill (and not something
hidden in the large corporate phone bill) then you are stealing from your
management.  Shame on you.

But I will agree with one point.  This might well mean the end of the
current net in many newsgroups.  Good thing, many will say.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473