At 02:50 AM 11/20/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: iaamoac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 19 november 2002 21:28 > 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_.
And others will feel that the article might be interesting, but because of their busy schedules are not able to get to the newsstand for the next several days, by which time the issue with the article in question is no longer available, so they will utter a curse on you and your children for the next ten generations for teasing them and not providing the full text of the article . . .
--Ronn! :)
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I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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