[11296] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Please release me!!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Mar 28 13:41:31 1994
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 94 21:19 EST
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: bzs@world.std.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199403262151.AA18692@world.std.com> (bzs@world.std.com)
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 16:51:37 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Gee, perhaps you can even get the money you paid them to manage the
list refunded.
Perhaps now is a good time for me to introduce my (soon to be
available) service EMList. EMList will be selling access to Internet
mailing lists. For $X/month (where X is about 5) EMList will sell you
a subscription to any Internet mailing list (some restrictions apply).
Of course, anyone can do this for free now. However, EMList
guarantees 1) to make changes to subscriptions in 24 hours or less,
and 2) to make a best-effort attempt to filter out subscription
requests.
EMList will offer to take over management of any (or create any new)
mailing list for free. Pre-paid mailing lists (where the list owner
pays rather than the subscribers) will also be available. Once the
service is established, other services will be available:
o Mailing list archives
o Digesting services
o Clipping services
o News-to-mail
o Mail-to-news
o "+1-700-" (permanent) email addresses
I also plan for EMList to set some standards and write some free
software for returning undeliverable email, which as any mailing list
manager can testify is BADLY needed.
See, back to my point, one difficulty of the current net model is that
people will expect service on a standard as if they paid for it, and
will get angry and abusive and worse if they don't get it, for
volunteer efforts.
I hope that EMList will bring some civility back into mailing list
management, as well as relieve those mailing list managers who are
burned out.
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> ftp.msen.com:pub/vendor/crynwr/crynwr.wav
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