From: IN%"brad@his.com" "Brad Knowles" 5-FEB-1997 00:31:13.98
> However, I think most people who've been on this list for a while
>will remember the extreme vitriol that was levelled at AltaVista when
>they tried this kind of thing, and not much less was levelled at
>InReference (at least they set the default of "if you do nothing, we
>will not subscribe and archive your list", while AltaVista set the
>opposite default).
Umm... IIRC, the offense against AltaVista et al was that
A: they were _archiving_ the list, not enabling more people to
read it and _respond_ to it real-time; and B. they were essentially
charging money (through advertisements) for a function other than
simply carrying the list in one way or another (nobody's mad at AOL
for charging money to deliver email to their subscribers, so far as
I know).
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