> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: woensdag 20 november 2002 14:19 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: RE: NASA
> >> John, have you ever considered the fact that posting articles from > >> The Economist here prevent the owners and publisher of The Economist > >> from recuperating the costs of publishing said magazine? > >> *************************************************** > >> > >> To answer your question - which I know you value so much - Yes, I > >> have considered the possibility that posting an occasional article > >> from _The Economist_ on Brin-L might cause someone who might have > >> purchased a subscription to _The Economist_ to not purchase said > >> subscription, and then I rejected that possibility. > > > >Note that I did not explicitly mention subscriptions; surely you are > >aware that individual copies of _The Economist_ can be purchased at > >newsstands around the world. > > > >Posting a few articles here will probably not influence someone's > >decision to buy or not to buy a subscription; I will grant you that. > >However, if you had only mentioned those articles (and perhaps had > >given a brief summary) instead of posting the full text, people might > >have decided that the articles were interesting enough to warrant a > >walk to the nearest newsstand to buy a copy of the latest edition of > >_The Economist_. By posting entire articles, those people will now have > >no reason to go out and buy a copy of the latest edition; therefore, > >you may very well have deprived the owners and publisher of _The > >Economist_, as well as the owner of the newsstand, of income. > > I have considered this possibility also, and rejected it. Why have you rejected this possibility? (This is not a rhetorical question.) > >(To take this into extremes: maybe the newsstand owner's wife will die > >because of your actions, because the revenue of those last few sales > >would finally have given her family enough money to pay for her life- > >saving operation.) > > I did not consider this possibility, but I have rejected it also. Why have you rejected this possibility? (This is also NOT a rhetorical question.) And how can you *reject* a possibility without first *considering* that possibility? (This is also not a rhetorical question.) > >And why do you refuse to answer simple questions on-line? (This is also > >not a rhetorical question.) > > Because I love seeing how many times you will violate basic Netiquette > by reposting my personal e-mail back to the List.... Personally, I think you have a quite different reason for it. But anyway, I will take a discussion back on-list whenever and as often as I deem necessary. Finally, I noticed you ignored one of the questions in my previous post, so I will repeat it here: Why is it wrong if others deprive companies of income, but not wrong if *you* do the same thing? (Again, this is not a rhetorical question.) Jeroen "Money makes the world go round" van Baardwijk __________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
