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Pastimes : Discuss Go2Net's acquisition of our beloved SI -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (24)	4/23/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 446

I guess the Kansas coffee just didn't cut it.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (24)	4/23/1998 12:14:00 PM
From: Scott Pedigo	Respond to of 446

What a fiendishly clever way to profit from the internet! Swamp people with ads, and allow them to pay extra for ad-free access! Well, swamping them would be going a bit too far. I did use the term "moderate". If there are too many ads, nobody will even visit the site. They'd end up waiting way too long for a page to load due to all the graphics. It's not just the irritation of the in-your-face ads, or the screen real-estate - it's the delay due to the limited bandwidth. Most people are still using analog modems and in my experience with ISDN (lucky me) I don't get all that much better throughput than with my 28.8 modem anyway.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (24)	4/23/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: Richard Ruscio	Respond to of 446

Greg M wrote: "What a fiendishly clever way to profit from the internet! Swamp people with ads, and allow them to pay extra for ad-free access!" This model is already true for network television (oldest, smallest, lots of interruptions) versus cable (older, no interruptions DURING the program) versus movie theaters (newest, biggest, brightest, but even here, trailers are ads during the experience). I'd much prefer some way to sell my time to view ads to SI, so that they can re-sell my time to advertisers. I really don't care for interruptions, or the bandwidth sucking stuff ("spinning bologna"). But, hey, I'm already a lifetime member, so ... rr