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From: ken@birtch.UUCP (Ken Brown x254)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Keyword based news
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 12:10:03 EDT
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> > > To Greg: The whole point of keywords is to allow greater user selectivity.
> > > For optimal use, you need poster-pays news with "collect" features.
> > 
> >   This will effectively kill 95% of the net. I do not have the authority
> > to spend HAO's money for this type of thing, and I'm not sure I would
> > ....
> > I think 95% of the users would drop off the net if they had to pay to post
> > articles.
> 
> The European usenet works on a pay as you go basis.  It seems to be thriving.
> I think the way it works is as follows:  each site pays a fixed sum each
> month to receive and post news.  I don't know how they determine the cost.
> Each site also pays for all mail that they send out.
>  .
>  .
>  .

That's great. But I have one question for you, WHO GETS THE MONEY?  How will
it get divied up? Do we pay out news feed, and they pay theirs', etc. like a
great big PYRAMID scheme?

I don't know who pays to have mail sent *everywhere* in the USA, from
the west coast to the east coast, etc, but, those sites that are doing
all the long distance calls are quite generous to the rest of us.  If
those sites couldn't support the cost of the phone bills, they could
(and should) decide not to support the net on that basis. I.E. stop
making those phone calls.

I don't have any idea on how to keep multiple copies of articles off
the net, but making each site *pay* to be on the net would make
the sites that are dollar sensitive just drop off the net.  Not all
large companies, that can afford net costs, necessarily have people
who will "follow the rules".  They won't have too. Their company
will pay for it.