> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Ronn Blankenship > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: donderdag 21 november 2002 9:09 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Posting articles, was RE: NASA
> >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 . . . Well, they could send someone else to pick up a copy for them, or, if that is not possible for some reason, order a copy directly from the publisher. 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
