Posted on 24 Feb 1995 at 13:57:37 by Peter Rauch
 
>2. If I thought for a moment that charging would seriously affect the
>dynamics of peoples' behavior towards _setting up_ lists, e.g., oh,
>geez, now I have to worry about billing, or about negotiating with the
>service provider in very legal ways; toward _using_ lists, e.g., let's
>experiment and see where things go (many people don't think they can
>afford to experiment; I think the biases brought by the constraint of
>"unaffordability" is significant), I would be very concerned about the
>effects of direct user charging on all sorts of user behavior.
 
Keep in mind also that in many jurisdictions list fees will be considered
taxable by various levels of government.
 
Tony Harminc