In a message dated 96-06-25 16:56:25 EDT, you write: > 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 > What's the list about? I mean, what's so great about the list that would make someone want to pay $50 to subscribe to it? Just Curious, Lisa Moore