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FROM:  LTC Bruce Bachus, (703)325-3865, DSN:221
Subject: Paying for lists
Just out of curiosity, is the trend to *charge* subscribers to allow
them to subscribe to a list?  I run several lists and don't charge
anything.  Its a service provided.  I think many list owners do the same --
volunteer their time and effort for the good of the list.  Not really
sure why they (we) do it, but we do anyway.  I am subscribed to this one
list (I won't mention the name here), that has somewhere around 2500
subscribers.  Its list owner has been soliciting payments from the
subscribers ($50).  They use Listmanager (commercial I think) as their
list manager software.   I was going to inform them that they could
solicit a "home" from lstown-l for probably the cost of a smile.  I was
even considering putting them up on our host (we run LISTSERV), but
unfortunately, we are military-oriented and the list wouldn't qualify.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Bruce Bachus
 
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