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To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (84)	11/15/2001 2:17:29 PM
From: trouthead	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 1003

I have never paid SI a dime, but I would. I would be willing to pay $4.95 a month to read and post. I think people should be charged for both. Perhaps $2.95 for reading and the $4.95 for posting. I get valuable info from this site. Both on stocks and politics and the plain old entertainment from the more than occasional whacky post. How many of you now pay nothing? How many of you would be willing to pay and how much? What if it meant the difference between SI and no SI? Thanks for all the good words. jb

To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (84)	11/15/2001 10:17:01 PM
From: E	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1003

1. Buy SI's database. No software. Just the accounts and messages on a few DVD-ROM's or tapes. On some chat thread i was expressing distress at the fact that if SI died, a lot of good writing from certain coffee shop threads would be lost. It's painful to think about, to me. Someone suggested that a possibility might be that at the funeral, SI would make downloaded threads on CDs available for purchase. Do you think that might happen?

To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (84)	11/15/2001 10:33:06 PM
From: Mark Marcellus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1003

Here's a nice possibility/fantasy. I have to believe that there are third parties out there backing up SI's content. There are enough people here who are both knowledgeable and fanatical enough to do it, that someone must be. If SI goes belly up, an "SI collective" could take the messages, work up a new site, and go into samizdat mode. It would work best if the site could be set up overseas somewhere that's out of reach of the long arm of American copyright law. Maybe the Cayman Islands. Well, on second thought, maybe a different location would be better. <g>