[751] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Lists of for-pay services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alison@osc.edu)
Wed May 29 11:42:15 1991
From: alison@osc.edu
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 11:39:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
To: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan), com-priv@psi.com
It certainly would make sense to provide some way to do limited advertising,
since one of the big problems users have is that they usually don't know
what is out there that is useful. No one is more motivated to educate
users (and willing to spend the time to do it, for "free") than those who
are selling the services. There must be some way we could harness that.
I'd be willing to tolerate some junk mail for the sake of more information
on what resources are available.
If you think about what you get at your office via U.S. mail, lots of it
is junk (at least mine is) in the sense that while it's good info it is
not relevant to me at that particular time. However, a quick peruse puts
most of it into the wastebasket, and what I get for spending that time is
various nuggets of info on who is selling what that often turn out useful
in the future. And it does give me an idea what neat new boxes and services
are out there that I would otherwise never know about.
