[12813] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet Company Commercial Market Newsgroups -- FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ofer Inbar)
Mon May 30 01:09:56 1994
Errors-To: cos@cs.brandeis.edu
From: "Ofer Inbar" <cos@cs.brandeis.edu>
To: raisch@internet.com (Rob Raisch, The Internet Company)
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 13:12:44 -0500 (EDT)
Cc: brad@looking.clarinet.com, psi.com@looking.clarinet.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9405091435.A25290-0100000@hmmm> from "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" at May 9, 94 02:00:35 pm
Errors-To: cos@cs.brandeis.edu
Reply-To: cos@cs.brandeis.edu
Rod Raisch writes:
> Brad Templeton writes:
> > That I would want to read nothing but ads of all sorts is silly. I do
> > want to see ads related to my topics of interest.
>
> Hmmm, perhaps you should tell this to the local 'shopper' papers that
> seem so prevailant these days. Or to the info-mercial people.
The main reason I've kept up my subscription to PC Magazine over the
past few years, even though I rarely have time to read the articles,
is that it is a convenient way to get ads from all of the major PC
mail order suppliers. There are people willing to pay to get a
consistent, reliable source of advertisments.
> > My opposition comes from the fact that because of the quick de facto
> > standardization of USENET, the market groups will make the proper
> > answer far harder to implement. They'll cause people to say, use
> > the 'market' groups, or to think that people who do it the right way
> > are doing it so as to avoid paying TIC some money.
Assuming the fees TIC charges are low enough, paying them a little
money or avoiding that will not really be relevant. Advertisers will
post to the market.* groups if they believe that a sufficient number
of people read those groups to make it worthwhile. TIC is providing
them with a service, a way to reach people, but it is not denying them
the use of any other methods which those advertisers may feel are good
ways to reach people. There is no "right way" as far as advertisers
are concerned, there is only "what works".
-- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@cs.brandeis.edu
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