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[fountai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Derek Fountain)]

> And if you had to pay to log onto the site, as well as paying for the
> time on-line (but without the ads), would you prefer that scenario?
> I know I wouldn't :-)

Yes, actually. If the content of a site is, in fact, for
sale, the site owner should say so. Then I know where I
stand. Either I pay directly through subscription, or
indirectly, via my bandwidth when I download ads which
someone else is paying the site owner to put up. If I want
the information on the site, I'll buy it. Otherwise I won't.
I don't have a problem with that.

What I have a problem with is people who put information in
a public place, then try to restrict the public's access to
it.

(An amusing pastime in London is to find a group of tourists
who have a guide who shouts a commentary on the sight they
are looking at, then go and stand near the group. The guide
will normally insist that you move away because you haven't
paid to hear them. They get rather irrate when you exercise
your right to stand wherever you like in a public place.
:-))


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