>>"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 Plus the fact that listowners don't always have the time for the massive administrative work involved. (I barely have time just to handle error messages and listmember problems.) Plus the fact that paying a subscription fee will make some listmembers believe they now have a say in running the list ("What do you mean, I can't post my two thousand line epic poem about the Canter and Siegel spam to exlibris [rare books & special collections forum], I paid good money to subscribe to this list and that means I have the right to post anything I damn well please!"). I dunno. From my point of view, academic lists (with high signal to noise ratio, preferably) contribute to knowledge and research and are quite legitimately considered a proper and legitimate use of university computers. It's the purely for fun lists (fan club lists, say) that I, were I a university administrator, would question. Just another farthing tossed into the conversation. I'll go back to my more customary lurker mode now. Mario Rups, co-listowner, ARCANA [log in to unmask]